The conference agenda for this year’s Media & Learning Conference being held on 17-18 June under the banner theme Co-creating the future of learning is almost complete and is packed with workshops, networking opportunities and inspiring talks. Organised jointly by MLA and KU Leuven, 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.
Here are just some of the workshops on our agenda – online bookings for these workshops will open about a week before the conference for everyone who is registered:
- 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
- Learning languages with a combined approach of storytelling, visual learning, and AI driven Socratic dialogue led by Ruth Maloszek, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
……. and there is lots more, presentations by experienced practitioners, plenty of networking and discussion opportunities, a chance to meet the MEDEA Finalists for 2026 and of course our exhibition where you can find out more about some of the latest services and tools that you can put into practice in your daily work.
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!
