The Media & Learning Association is a member of the Eduhack network which recently launched the pilot of its online course aimed at enhancing the digital cometence of educators with UNIR in Spain. This pilot began in March and has involved over 50 registered participants who have been working on the course activities, reflecting on the course wall and exchanging opinions on their experience.

The draft programme for the Media & Learning Video in Higher Education conference taking place on 5-6 June 2019 organised by the Media & Learning Association and KU Leuven. Three topics that are set to receive a lot of attention during the conference are AI, Immersion and Lecture Capture. You can find more about what is happening over these two days packed with great talks, discussions, workshops and screenings on the conference website.

Members of the international board of the association met on 30/31 January in Leuven hosted by KU Leuven  to review the work of the association and to make plans for the coming months. During the meeting, the board discussed activitities for the rest of 2019 in detail including the annual conference in June 2019, a possible webinar series and an event on media literacy for autumn. We also talked about expanding the membership and ideas for collaborative projects along with how best to support the members. 

This year in tandem with the Video in Higher Education conference organised by the Media & Learning Association with KU Leuven on 5-6 June 2019 in Leuven, Belgium, the annual MEDEA Awards are specifically devoted to higher and continuing education.  In recent years there has been a huge increase in the extent to which media in general and video in particular is playing a role in higher and continuing education and with this year’s MEDEA awards, we aim to identify, recognise and reward the very best of what is happening in these sectors.