Emerging Media Exploration

-A transnational Curriculum on Emerging Media integrating concepts of blended mobility
-Concepts for Online Courses, Intensive Workshops, and ECTS Modules
-Open teaching resources for Emerging Media Technologies
-Field Guide to blended learning

The project Emerging Media Exploration (EMEX) seeks to develop collaborative teaching approaches to explore the impact of new and emerging media technologies on the future of storytelling and the society.

Primary target groups are students and teachers in design, arts and media technology. Students need access to emerging media technology to improve employability in the competitive labor market of the media industry. Likewise, teachers need first-hand access to new developments in the field in order to update their curricula and courses to match with the developments of the market.

The secondary target group are industry partners from media technology research institutes and start-ups. They often lack the capability of testing their products in an authentic production environment, because media production companies have no time and budget to work on experimental media. Together with engaged students and teachers they can assess the potential in aesthetics and storytelling that lies in their technologies.

The main objective of EMEX is the creation of a “blended mobility” project-based learning curriculum on the theme of Emerging Media. It shall integrate international online courses, intensive on-site workshops, industry partnerships and shared minor curricula for Erasmus students. The consortium partners have extensive experiences in all of these areas and are seeking to blend them into a greater framework.

More detailed, the project follows these sub-objectives:
Creation of a framework for a blended mobility curriculum on Emerging Media
Establishment of an international minor programme for bachelor students in media and design study programmes with mutual recognition of modules in the domain of Emerging Media
Development of online course formats to prepare students and teachers for both short and long-term mobility actions between the participating universities.
Create prototypical content, formats and playful content in general for new media platforms and technologies in student-led exploration projects in collaboration with industry partners.
Create learning material on different emerging media topics together with industry partners
Continued discourse about the societal impact of new media technologies.

The project is structured as follows:
An initial preparation and conception phase
Three implementation phases with online activities in spring / summer and mobility actions in autumn / winter
Iterative evaluations and course and material improvements between the phases
A final summer school and multiplier event

This project should be carried out transnationally for the following reasons:

We, and here we can especially speak for our students, are committed to a Europe without borders and as creatives and content producers, we think that a transnational perspective on storytelling and content creation is essentially necessary for a digital single market to arise not only economically, but also from a societal viewpoint.
As an international consortium, we were able to get the European Broadcast Union as an associated partner as a valuable dissemination and network partner.

Not the least, the core partners of this consortium (University of Lincoln, Tampere University of Applied Science, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) already have a successful track record of formal and informal international cooperations and we believe that they are the most suitable partners for this project both nationally and internationally.

https://www.tamk.fi/web/tamken/projects?RepoProject=E3110-18080