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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction: Why Look at Flexibility?
  4. One › Clarifying the Concept
    1. Introduction
    2. 1 › Flexibility in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge of Web 2.0
    3. 2 › Students’ Perceptions: Flexing Pedagogy and Practice
    4. 3 › Structured Flexible Learning: Making Informed Design Choices
  5. Two › Identifying Driving and Restraining Forces
    1. Introduction
    2. 4 › Flexible Distance Education for Social Transformation
    3. 5 › Politics, Pedagogy, and Productivity as Drivers of Flexible Learning
    4. 6 › Cultural Perceptions of Flexibility in Asian Higher Education
    5. 7 › Openness and Flexibility in New Zealand: Victories and Challenges
  6. Three › Surviving the Swamps of Everyday Practice
    1. Introduction
    2. 8 › Before the Fall: Breaking Rules and Changing Minds
    3. 9 › Implementing an Online System: Voices of Experience
    4. 10 › Adding Flexibility to Higher Education Using OERs: Lessons from the Open University
    5. 11 › From “Here” to “There”: The Rocky Road to Flexibility
    6. 12 › Where Has the Effort Gone?: The Quest to Sustain Momentum
    7. 13 › An Elephant’s Lifetime, the Patience of Job
    8. 14 › The Garden of Learning Delights: The Librarian’s Tale
    9. 15 › Reflecting on Swamp Life
    10. 16 › Mapping the Driving and Restraining Forces on Flexibility in Higher Education
  7. Four › Admitting Compromises
    1. Introduction
    2. 17 › The Fog of Flexibility: The Riskiness of Flexible Post-secondary Education in Australia
    3. 18 › Flexing Costs and Reflecting on Methods
    4. 19 › “Which Is to Be Master”?: Reflections on Ethical Decision Making
  8. Five › Voicing Contrarian Opinions
    1. Introduction
    2. 20 › The Paradoxes of Flexible Learning
    3. 21 › Transformational Technologies: Exploring Myths and Realities
    4. 22 › “Plenty of Saps”
    5. 23 › What Happens in the Stretch to Flexibility?
  9. Conclusion: The Challenge of Weaving Principles with Practice
  10. Index

Issues in Distance Education

Series editors: Terry Anderson and David Wiley

Distance education is the fastest-growing mode of both formal and informal teaching, training, and learning. It is multi-faceted in nature, encompassing e-learning and mobile learning, as well as immersive learning environments. Issues in Distance Education presents recent research results and offers informative and accessible overviews, analyses, and explorations of current topics and concerns and of the technologies employed in distance education. Each volume focuses on critical questions and emerging trends, while also situating these developments within the historical evolution of distance education as a specialized mode of instruction. The series is aimed at a wide group of readers, including teachers, trainers, administrators, researchers, and students.

Series Titles

The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, Second Edition

Edited by Terry Anderson

Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training

Edited by Mohamed Ally

A Designer’s Log: Case Studies in Instructional Design

Michael Power

Accessible Elements: Teaching Science Online and at a Distance

Edited by Dietmar Kennepohl and Lawton Shaw

Emerging Technologies in Distance Education

Edited by George Veletsianos

Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education

Edited by Elizabeth Burge, Chère Campbell Gibson, and Terry Gibson

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