Topic outline

  • Unit 52: Creation of a learning environment


    • Meet Your Facilitator

    • Unit Introduction

      • 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


        By the end of this unit you should be able to:



    • Assessment Information


      • We would like you to interact with your peers and discuss how close in the past you have come to creating a student-centred learning environment. What was your experience? What worked and what proved difficult? After discussing and reflecting on these issues we want you to see if you, and ideally your class, can create a student-centred learning environment that uses various digital tools.

        Spend some time creating such an environment. We will ask you to write, and share, a short case-study on your experience.

      • Instructions

        1. Use the forum below and interact with both your peers and the unit facilitator. Describe either a student-centric lesson you organised previously or one you plan to organise now that you have finished the unit. Also look back at previous forum posts for additional idea about how you might do this.

        1. Fill in the sections of the Learning Environment Template relevant to this unit. Ideally you should add to the same document you have worked on in units 50 and 51 rather than starting again and submit the updated version. The version below is an empty template to be used if you have misplaced your original.


        1. Use the assignment tool below to upload the latest version of the learning environment design document

    • Attribution and References

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