Evaluation:

Active participation in the sessions as well as in the unit's Google + Community, and the execution of a practical team project, are required in order to successfully pass the unit. The project-based evaluation will ask the students to demonstrate their creative, critical and reflective thinking that is informed by a limited empricial research, academic literature as well as the latest media innovations. The practical projects will be highly individual, formed around students’ own interests and career aspirations. The students will develop either audio (e.g. radio podcast), audiovisual (e.g. online video) or visual presentation (e.g. infographic) of their innovative problem-solving idea informed by the latest and future technological innovations, as well as the secondary and primary research. The unit is designed specifically for self-depended and curious students who are keen to experiment and dive into learning by play and guided self-learning.

You can see some of Bournemouth University, Charles University and Metropolitan Univesity student projects here:

1. VIDEO

iCinema

PlanStick https://youtu.be/KJPPYrpQ_Qk

Mira&Manu

Through My Eyes

Senect https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=169&v=1HA8Q7p1GFM

Family Tree

Manus TX

Ponto

Datrix

2. AUDIO

Emotions

Aergos Technology

Alzheimer

3. VISUAL

Zleeping Glasses

Unit content and organisation:

The eighty-minute sessions are organised as seminars and workshops with a great emphasis on active participation. The discussions are being fueled mostly by the students’ own experience and discovery, and secondarily by cross-cultural and interdisciplinary academic and industry research and practice.

Together with focusing on concrete emerging media platforms, and to them connected experiences and environments, the themes covered will be following:

Cross-platform media;
Transmedia narratives;
Convergence;
Life in media and media life;
Creativity, participation and innovation;
Remediation;
Immediacy and hypermediacy;
Future learning in/with/through media
Fourth industrial revolution
Internet of Things
Biotechnology