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Quality education means starting with foundation skills such as literacy and numeracy, being taught by high-quality teachers, and supporting disadvantaged students. These three areas are being addressed through the three Smarter Schools National Partnerships.

Flinders University's Bachelor degree programs aim to produce graduates: who are knowledgeable who can apply their knowledge who communicate effectively who can work independently who are collaborative who value ethical behaviour who connect across boundaries.

Preparing and developing e-learning materials is a costly and time consuming enterprise. This paper highlights the elements of effective design that we consider assist in the development of high quality materials in a cost efficient way. We introduce six elements of design and discuss each in some detail. These elements focus on paying attention to the provision of a rich learning activity, situating this activity within an interesting story line, providing meaningful opportunities for student reflection and third party criticism, considering appropriate technologies for delivery, ensuring that the design is suitable for the context in which it will be used, and bearing in mind the personal, social, and environmental impact of the designed activities. Along the way, we describe how these design elements can be effectively utilized by contextualizing them with examples from an e-learning initiative.

An interactive and fun way to explore 2D and 3D shapes in our everyday life!

A great example of the high quality numeracy video resources being created by students at Flinders University EDUC3625.