Unit 4

Social media and educational institutions

By the end of Unit 4 you will be able to:

  • Design a unit of content for a digital course and present it to peers;
  • Assign a license to your course content basing on the principles of authorship rights in education, and the licensing practices in your socio-cultural context;
  • Critically analyse the conditions of interactions in Social Media environment, and make informative decisions about integrating SM in online instruction;
  • Design a digital presentation as a standalone digital object or as an element of your course and present it to peers;
  • Apply the SECTIONS  model (Bates, 2014) for evaluating appropriateness of a media tool in your instruction.