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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

Copyright © 2011 Elizabeth Burge, Chère Campbell Gibson, and Terry Gibson

Published by AU Press, Athabasca University

1200, 10011 – 109 Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 3S6

ISBN 978-1-926836-20-1 (print)978-1-926836-21-8 (PDF)978-1-926836-62-1 (epub)

A volume in Issues in Distance Education

ISBN 1919-4382 (print) 1919-4390 (digital)

Cover Design by Michel Vrana

Interior design by Marvin Harder

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Flexible pedagogy, flexible practice : notes from the trenches of distance education / edited by Elizabeth Burge, Chère Gibson, Terry Gibson.

(Issues in distance education)

Includes bibliographical references.

Issued also in electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-926836-20-1

1. Distance education. I. Burge, Elizabeth J II. Gibson, Chère Campbell, 1945– III. Gibson, Terry IV. Series: Issues in distance education series (Print)

LC5803.F5F53 2011371.35C2011-904737-3

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CFB) for our publishing activities.

Assistance provided by the Government of Alberta, Alberta Multimedia Development Fund.

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