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Learning Media for Digital Citizenship
Media & Learning 2017 is all about inspiring, informing and sharing great ideas on what it means to be a digital citizen and how media fits into this process. Students nowadays are expected to play an active role online rather than simply being passive consumers of content, but what does it take to really instill them with the skills and competences to be effective, responsible and creative online? What’s the best way to ensure that students can be in the…
Find out more »2017 European Distance and E-Learning Network Conference
The annual EDEN conference takes place in Jönköping , Sweden on 13-16 June 2017. Under the banner title of Diversity Matters! the conference plans to focus on the responsibility of the scholarly community to properly handle diversity in education with respect to learners’ profiles, backgrounds, generations, cultures with different languages, literacies, and ways of communication as well as diversity in media and technology enhanced learning environments. Registration Open: mid-February 2017.
Find out more »Third Conference of Media Education and Digital Competence (III Congreso de Educación Mediática y Competencia Digital)
The Third Conference of Media Education and Digital Competence (III Congreso de Educación Mediática y Competencia Digital) builds on the work of international scholars and practitioners from the fields of education and communication who participated in two previous conferences held in Barcelona (2013) and Segovia (2011). In an ongoing effort to support a vibrant discourse about promising directions for media education, these participants have joined forces with people across the world to initiate a virtual, collaborative space open to anyone…
Find out more »National Association for Media Literacy Education 2017 National Conference
In response to the current political discourse and the growing urgency for active civic participation, The National Association for Media Literacy Education announced today that its 2017 conference theme will be “Engaging Citizens, Building Community.” The conference will take place in Chicago, Illinois, from June 26-June 28, 2017, at Roosevelt University. It will officially kick-off with pre-conference events on Monday, June 26, and full sessions will commence starting on Tuesday, June 27 through Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
Find out more »European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL)
Co-organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, Department of Information and Communication Sciences of Zagreb University and the IUT Paris Descartes, European Conference on Information Literacy (or ECIL) will take place in Saint-Malo, France from 18-21 September 2017. ECIL is an international conference under the patronage of UNESCO and IFLA. Paul G. Zurkowski is the Honorary Chair of the Conference. Conference committees include over hundred distinguished experts from over sixty countries. The language of the Conference is…
Find out more »Media Meets Literacy in Sarajevo
Media literacy professionals from all over Europe will be gathering in Sarajevo in September 2017 to explore the huge challenges of our rapidly changing media world. Given the tidal wave of information, disinformation, propaganda and lies that we have witnessed in the recent past, the Media Meets Literacy 2017 conference, organized by the Evens Foundation and partners, will have plenty to discuss.
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