The Media & Learning 2013 Conference is aimed at policy makers, practitioners, service-providers and producers who want to share their experience of using media creatively to enhance learning, to identify ways for developing digital and media skills in education and training and to find new and effective ways to use media as a force for change in the learning process.
The conference programme will revolve around main general themes:
- Putting in place effective classroom practices that protect and empower the learner
- Media-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching
- Creating and curating open educational media resources that can be used and shared by everyone
- Putting in place effective media literacy schemes in collaboration with broadcasters
- Maximising the use of media, by making it second nature for teachers
- Turning classrooms into creative learning spaces for all types of learners
- Moving beyond recording to flexible and effective use of lecture capture: flipping the classroom to make the best use of limited educational resources
- Film and image education as a core competence for today’s learner
- Improving learning opportunities through the use of serious games
- Visual interactive interfaces helping learners to analyse big data and learn with them
