All of us are constantly surrounded by multimedia, all the time. It has become a hugely pervasive and important feature of modern life – for good and ill. Multimedia is also an increasingly important tool in education and, when the right kinds of multimedia are used in the right ways, it can provide tremendous benefits.

In this unit, we will learn about some of the features of multimedia and what role it can play in our classrooms. We will also learn specifically, how you can create your own multimedia resources that do exactly what you need them to do.

Instructional design is basically something you do every time you plan a lesson. You are designing how the instruction will take place. You consider what the objectives of the lesson are, what actions you will take, what actions your learners will take, how you will assess what your learners have learnt and in what sequence all of this is going to happen. One benefit of doing this in a physical classroom is that you can change direction whenever and however you need to based on how your learners respond.

In this unit, however, we are going to consider instructional design for the online environment, where your interaction with learners is more limited and it is harder to change things in the middle of a lesson. For this reason, your planning needs to be more careful and considered.

In this unit, you are going to set up your own online Learning Management System (or LMS) using the free Moodle Cloud software. We are also going to use what we learnt about instructional design in Unit 43 to evaluate the quality of the units in this course. If you have not yet completed Unit 43: Instructional Design, you should go back and complete it before continuing.

In Unit 44 you would have learned how to create your own online learning environment. This allows you to experiment with moving some of your teaching and class activities into an online environment.

While you might not be physically present while your learners work through the materials online, you will still need to facilitate your learner's online experience and be available to assist them if they have any questions or concerns. This unit will introduce you to the basics of online facilitation.

Google Classroom is a blended learning platform and learner management system (LMS) for teachers. Using a Google account, Google Docs and Google Drive, it simplifies e-learning, and allows paperless assignment submission and marking.

In this unit, you will learn how to set up a Google Classroom, and how it can save you time, and help you communicate and collaborate with learners and other teachers.

The main idea behind Facebook is that it creates a community where people can share ideas, feelings and content. Facebook’s community pages allow you to communicate with your community in an effective way. In this unit, we are going to learn about how to use Facebook community pages in the classroom.

This unit will introduce you to Google Sites, a simple and free tool that you can use to design your own website. You will explore the possibilities of using this resource for both teaching and learning.

n Unit 44 you learned about creating your own online learning environment using a open source tool called Moodle. This unit is intended to get you started on your journey of using Moodle. We will be covering simple tasks such as how to insert content, create a quiz and use an interactive tool such as forums.

Module 12, that is Units 50-54, is meant to be experienced in sequence as the units are designed to work together. They identify a number of issues that need to be addressed when designing an online learning environment that embraces 21st Century Skills. In this unit we will look how students might use, 'Critical thinking, problem solving, reasoning, analysis, interpretation, synthesizing information' and 'Research skills and interrogative questioning' by tackling a real world problem. Then in subsequent units we will create an online environment to provide the digital tools to help the students find a solution to an identified real world problem.

This unit is the second in a series of five. Module 12, that is units 50-54, is meant to be experienced in sequence as the units are designed to work together. They identify a number of issues that need to be addressed when designing a learning environment that embraces 21st Century Skills. In this unit we will look how teachers and students can design an online learning environment to interact with both class members and potentially the community.

This unit is the third in a series of five. Module 12, that is units 50-54, is meant to be experienced in sequence as the units are designed to work together. They identify a number of issues that need to be addressed when designing a learning environment that embraces 21st Century Skills. In this unit we will look how students can build an online learning environment to interact with both class members and potentially the community. Such an activity does have the potentials for students to elicit the following specific 21st Century skills:

Oral and written communication, public speaking and presenting, listening;
Leadership, teamwork, collaboration, cooperation, facility in using virtual workspaces;
Information and communication technology (ICT) literacy, media and internet literacy, data interpretation and analysis, computer programming

This unit is the fourth in a series of five. Module 12, that is units 50-54, is meant to be experienced in sequence as the units are designed to work together. This unit is different from the others in this series as we encourage participants to implement the learning environment they have built up in the previous units. We want to know what happens!

This unit is the fifth in a series of five. Module 12, that is units 50-54, is meant to be experienced in sequence as the units are designed to work together. In this unit we will look how the learning environment might be improved and revised based on lessons learned during the implementation.

Learning goes beyond what we learn in traditional classroom settings, and even beyond e-learning. There are opportunities to learn in everyday life, and education is not something that can only be found in textbooks or in a classroom, but everywhere.

As teachers, we are tasked with making education as engaging and effective as possible. Any tools that help us to do this are worth exploring and implementing in the classroom. This unit is going to focus on an interesting pedagogical concept called the “Flipped Classroom”.