The conference agenda for this year’s Media & Learning Conference being held on 17-18 June and organised jointly by MLA and KU Leuven is now complete. We are looking forward to welcoming participants to the vibrant City of Leuven and extend a last minute invitation to anyone who has not yet registered to do so here.
This year’s two day event under the banner theme Co-creating the future of learning is packed with workshops, networking opportunities and inspiring talks. In just 10 days we will be reaching out to all registered participants of this conference to book their places for workshops and other sessions. Here are just some of the workshops on our agenda:
- Learning languages with a combined approach of storytelling, visual learning, and AI driven Socratic dialogue led by Ruth Maloszek, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- CTL Alignment Workshop for Digital Teams led by Nynke Kruiderink from Npuls in the Netherlands,
- The Ten-Minute Experiment: Using Microlearning to Reduce Cognitive Load led by Alice Pistono from JoVE in Italy,
- Rapid Photorealism: Getting to Grips with 3D Gaussian Splatting led by Nathan Saucier from Leiden University in the Netherlands
- Designing AI-Mediated Learning Experiences with COMPASS led by Olysha Magruder & James Diamond from Johns Hopkins University in the US.
- AI and Problem-Based Learning: Shaping Student Competencies for Uncertain Futures led by Roland Böttcher, Bochum University of Applied Science, Germany
- Deconstructing Representation in Text-to-Video Generative-AI led by Shant Bayramian, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
All registered participants are also welcome to take part in this year’s MEDEA Awards Ceremony and to meet the representatives of the following shortlisted finalists:
- CAP’VR Project (Mimbus Chemistry) — Le Cnam (France)
- Developments in Cancer Immunotherapy — University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
- From Trust to Trauma: Perspectives on Obstetric Violence — University of South-Eastern Norway (Norway)
- Le 8ème Stade — Galilée (Belgium)
- Newsday VR — University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
- The Social Media Trap — ClickView (Australia)
- The Talents of Europe: Comparative Law in the Age of AI Regulation — IE University (Spain)
Our conference this year features the following keynote speakers:
- Sharon Klinkenberg, University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands
- Rob Morgan from King’s College London & Playlines in the UK
- Agne Limante from the European Commission
- Laure Michelon from UCLA in the US
- Jeff Van de Poël from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland
This year’s agenda also includes a special online ‘in conversation’ session with Stephen Downes, renowned digital learning designer and commentator to discuss his ideas on where we are going with AI in higher education.
Registration is open and you can check out the draft programme here. The conference website is also live. We are looking forward to seeing you in Leuven in June!
