Higher Education institutions are subject to an ever-increasing level of pressure to innovate to ensure their continued relevance in contemporary society. This points to a re-appraisal of the tools and structures supporting innovation including the production and use of educational media and where this fits within the wider move towards more technological support including AI. Invited speakers in this session will share their thoughts on this topic and provide guidance on directions for the future.

Moderator: Sonia Hetzner, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany & President Media & Learning Association

Presenters:

• Alexandra Mihai, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Advancing Excellence in Education: The Changing Role of Centres for Teaching & Learning
• Bart Rienties, Open University, UK Implementing learning analytics and learning design at scale (with some evidence for practice)
• Carl Boel, Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, Belgium Training soft skills in higher education using immersive virtual reality. Perceptions from students and faculty.

Talks given in this presentation session will revolve around the roles and opportunities played by audiovisual media in teacher training.

Moderator: Andy Thys, KU Leuven, Belgium

Presenters:

• Margaret Farren, Yvonne Crotty and Sean Manely, DCU, Ireland Facilitating teacher online collaboration in the development of media resources for the classroom
• Carl Eltervaag, Esben Kamstrup & Peter Mørk. NTNU, Norway Young vloggers – visual expressions and new learning potentials
• Lisa Vettermann & Mario Draghina, University of Augsburg – Medialab, Germany Enriched 360-degree videos in teacher education

Presentations in this session will address academic staff training and the role of Centres for Teaching and Learning and others in supporting academics use of media.

Moderator: Michiel Vledder, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

Presenters:

• Audun Bjerknes, LINK, University of Oslo, Norway Can we observe learning as it happens?
• Laure Englebert, IHECS, Belgium Blended learning and pedagogical innovation: supporting teachers in Higher Education
• Predrag Pale, University Zagreb, Croatia A range of practices of European universities providing infrastructure for video production and support to teachers to use them
• Ross Parker, Durham University, UK Designing Video Workshops for the Post-Pandemic University: A Playful Approach

During this discussion session we plan to take a moment for a short review of some of the main findings and conclusions of Media & Learning 2023 and to summarise the association’s plans for the coming 12 months.

Moderator: Lucy Kendra, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Everyone welcome although only Media & Learning Association members can vote.

Designing effective and engaging learning experiences is one of the teachers’ greatest challenges today. As online learning continues to grow in popularity, teachers need to be empowered to start creating their own educational videos. Why you may ask? Because delivering video lessons can be an effective and efficient way for teachers to engage students, save time, and improve learning outcomes.

But the real question is: how can we empower teachers to create their own video content?

In this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to learn about the benefits of producing educational videos and how to use the Nudgis platform to create engaging videos effectively. In the second part, we will showcase the best practices implemented by the Haute École HELMo for empowering teachers. This will include an overview of HELMo’s e-learning think tank created to support and train their own teachers and improve their pedagogical practices.

Session leaders: Jenny Méité, International Business Developer, UbiCast & Izida Khamidoullina , Head of
the E-learning Department, Haute École Libre Mosane, Belgium

The use of video in education has become more important in the last few years. Not only in online education, but also in campus orientated courses. Blended course design and flipping the classroom methodologies has led teachers to explore teaching with video. Tech savvy teaching staff were working with their familiar tools such as OBS or Adobe Premiere, while others were struggling with their webcams and a recorded MS Teams meeting. At Howest we wanted to facilitate these teaching staff with an easy-to-use low-tech solution to record a professional video. Rapidmooc came up with that solution.

Session leaders: Tim Vanderhaeghen, Project lead EdTech & Digital Learning, Howest, University of Applied Sciences in Flanders, Belgium & Olivier Armitano-Grivel, Rapidmooc

Research recently shows the gap between the growing demand for HyFlex learning and the lack of preparedness to enable its adoption in Europe. In this session we’ll cover how Sony’s technology and education solutions can help to bridge that gap.

This session will be led by Jelmer Landuyt, Channel Account Manager – Profession Audio Visual & Philippe Remion, Business Development Manager & Education Specialist, Sony

Working with scientists in making video content is fun but can be quite a challenge. Often, scientists are not used to the media production workflow and feel insecure. Sometimes they are even stubborn. Converting their elaborate knowledge into a short video isn’t easy. Scientific facts alone are not enough to persuade the general public and presenting in front of a camera is quite different from writing papers.

In this session we’ll dive into the character and position of the scientist and AV professional. Our focus will be more on the soft skills than the technical aspects of production. We’ll look at the different roles and responsibilities during the production and give you examples on how to let ‘your’ scientist shine on screen, plus stay happy yourself. Of course, we are also curious to hear about your own experiences and look forward to your feedback.

Moderator: Carel Jansen, CarelJansen.com, The Netherlands

Panelists: Mathy Vanbuel, Lucy Kendra, Greg Fantham, Sebas Muñoz, Monika Theron

Join this session to exchange experiences and discuss how the AI tools assist productivity in designing new courses and learning materials. The session will go through the process of prompt engineering, course design using AI, media production and evaluation.

Moderator:Janne Länsitie, Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Panelists: Sonia Hetzner, Adel Qaddoumi, Monika Theron

Screenings in this session will feature repositories of best practice classroom videos as well as video resources created as part of teacher training activities.

Moderator: Kamakshi Rajagopal, AE – Adapt & Enable, Belgium

Showcases from:

• Madeleine Murray, Professional Development Service for Teachers, Dept Education, Ireland
• Carl Eltervaag, Esben Kamstrup & Peter Mørk. NTNU, Norway
• Isabella Dobler , Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Media & Learning Association members and other staff from Higher Education Institutions will be demonstrating tools and services that they have found really useful. This includes tools to help academics create their own educational media resources, AI services that have been found to be valuable, or other software, gadgets or tools that help enhance educational media. production and use.

• CONNEXROOM by Amin Hassani & Giuliano Bernardi, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Demos of (morning) Pano2Vr by Roland Hallmeier, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany and (afternoon) A variety of AI tools in media production by Markus Tischner, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Media & Learning Association members and other staff from Higher Education Institutions will be demonstrating tools and services that they have found really useful. This includes tools to help academics create their own educational media resources, AI services that have been found to be valuable, or other software, gadgets or tools that help enhance educational media. production and use.

• CONNEXROOM by Amin Hassani, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Demos of (morning) Pano2Vr by Roland Hallmeier, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany and (afternoon) A variety of AI tools in media production by Markus Tischner, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

During this session, MLA members and others will present and share their experiences of testing out different Generative AI Tools in the educational media production process.

Moderator: Carlos Turro Ribalta, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Panelists: Marco Toffanin, Dom Pates, Steven McCombe, Markus Tischner

During this interactive session led by Yvonne Crotty, DCU, Ireland,  Yvonne will present the Educational Entrepreneurial Approach (EEA) which she has developed that enables practitioners to create multimedia resources for their workplace that are underpinned by sound pedagogical insights.

EEA consists of four phases: Exploration,  Understanding, Creating and Transforming and this session will include a discussion into how educators can incorporate media into the learning process in the most efficient and effective

In the first part of this workshop,Andrea Balz will lead participants through the different steps in the training provided to university employees to increase the sensitivity of employees with regard to the requirements and needs of people with disabilities – both staff and students. This training is made up of theoretical and practical parts including an introduction to how participants can experience different sensory and motor disabilities.

In the second part of this workshop, Iris Nemec will introduce participants to the course Active Assistive Technologies (AAT) which covers Active Assistive Living, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Tactile Communication, Physical Accessibility, Content Accessibility and Web Accessibility.

This meeting for MLA members only provides an opportunity to discuss collaboration projects and the work of the Special Interest Groups going forward.

Moderator: Sally Reynolds, Media & Learning Association