Conference highlights include

• Renee Hobbs, internationally recognized authority on digital and media-literacy education speaking about how teacher motivation shapes digital learning
• screenings and demonstrations by the nine MEDEA Awards finalists from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Spain
• discussion on the topic of e-safety and digital ethics led by Don Heider from the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University, Chicago.
• Beeban Kidron, founder of the nationwide FilmClub in the UK and well-known film and documentary director, sharing her thoughts about film and media literacy
• pre-conference workshops and visits on lecture-capture practices in universities, next-generation educational-game platforms, and classrooms of the future
• Russell Stannard on his experience in using video and how he has built a reputation as one of the largest providers of video for language teaching on the planet
• a practical workshop on pedagogic video design led by Jack Koumi
• Susanne Friz from Germany’s FWU Institute for Film and Images and Dennis Van Der Helm from Kennisnet presenting their ideas on and experience in making open educational media resources available 
• MOOC trailblazer Sian Bayne from Edinburgh University explaining her approach to curating a MOOC
• showing of "InRealLife", a controversial new documentary by filmmaker Beeban Kidron that asks, "What exactly is the Internet, and what is it doing to our children?"
• Derrick de Kerckhove, former Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology at the University of Toronto on the status of learning in today’s society.

Media & learning 2013 is aimed at everyone concerned with the successful take up of innovative media-based practices at all levels of education. The Conference promises to highlight the most important developments and discussions taking place in relation to media-supported learning.