The need to design courses in diverse teaching scenarios, i.e. face-to-face, blended, or online requires flexibility and modularity, becoming nowadays an increasingly urgent and imperative necessity.

Among the teaching flexibility options, the well known Flipped Classroom (FC) model has been recognized and appreciated in the educational field, but the literature highlights the lack of adequate support for teachers in developing teaching skills for effective learning. To this end, the Erasmus+ Learning Design for Flexible Education project (FLeD Project), involving six European universities and a multidisciplinary research team, has developed a digital teaching design platform, called FLeD Tool, that integrates Scaffolding and Learning Design Patterns guidelines, combining design flexibility with inclusiveness and accessibility.

The project also aimed to create multilingual open access resources on the main topics covered, which have been fully integrated into the FLed Tool platform as guidelines and patterns for the instructional design.

The Tool and the related resources of the Toolkit have been subjected to a validation process by a group of experts. The research evidence of the pilot phase and the first results of the project, led to the development of a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), a self-paced course in which the flexibility approach is concretely applied to FC to support teachers in the design of flexible and inclusive learning scenarios, using the resources of the Fled Toolkit in a technological design environment, allowing users to interactively experiment with this methodological proposal: as a result, participants have the opportunity to learn about and interact first-hand with the learning environment created by the FLeD project through the resources of the Toolkit and the MOOC.

The original and innovative aspect of the present proposal lies in providing a technological design model and environment that responds to current needs, rich in resources and above all concrete and practical, a tool for university teachers, but also feasible for teachers of schools of all levels.

Participants will be engaged in accessing the MOOC prepared within the project as well as the FLeD tool as a dedicated environment to design flexible learning. Learning analytics collected on the MOOC will also be presented as first results of the self paced learning program.

Keywords: Flexible learning, Flipped classroom, Instructional design, University teaching skills, MOOC training.