Foreword / Frits Pannekoek
Introduction: Why Look at Flexibility? - Elizabeth
Burge
ONE › Clarifying the Concept
Introduction
1 › Flexibility in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge of
Web 2.0 - Denise Kirkpatrick
2 › Students’ Perceptions: Flexing Pedagogy and Practice
- Julie Willems
3 › Structured Flexible Learning: Making Informed Design
Choices - Der-Thanq Chen, Rose Liang, and Yu-mei Wang
TWO › Identifying Driving and Restraining
Forces
Introduction
4 › Flexible Distance Education for Social Transformation -
Milly Daweti and Jean Mitchell
5 › Politics, Pedagogy, and Productivity as Drivers of
Flexible Learning - Cathy Gunn
6 › Cultural Perceptions of Flexibility in Asian Higher
Education - Colin Latchem and Insung Jung
7 › Openness and Flexibility in New Zealand: Victories and
Challenges - Mary Simpson and Bill Anderson
THREE › Surviving the Swamps of Everyday
Practice
Introduction
8 › Before the Fall: Breaking Rules and Changing Minds -
Darcy W. Hardy
9 › Implementing an Online System: Voices of Experience -
Andrew Higgins and Mark Northover
10 › Adding Flexibility to Higher Education Using OERs:
Lessons from the Open University - Andy Lane
11 › From “Here” to “There”: The Rocky
Road to Flexibility - Kay MacKeogh and Seamus Fox
12 › Where Has the Effort Gone?: The Quest to Sustain Momentum
- Darien Rossiter
13 › An Elephant’s Lifetime, the Patience of Job -
Yoni Ryan
14 › The Garden of Learning Delights: The Librarian’s
Tale - Non Scantlebury and Gill Needham
15 › Reflecting on Swamp Life - Arthur L. Wilson
16 › Mapping the Driving and Restraining Forces on Flexibility
in Higher Education - Chère Campbell Gibson and Terry
Gibson
FOUR › Admitting Compromises
Introduction
17 › The Fog of Flexibility: The Riskiness of Flexible
Post-secondary Education in Australia - Terry Evans and Peter
Smith
18 › Flexing Costs and Reflecting on Methods - Greville
Rumble
19 › “Which Is to Be Master”?: Reflections on
Ethical Decision Making - Melody M. Thompson and Lorna
Kearns
FIVE › Voicing Contrarian Opinions
Introduction
20 › The Paradoxes of Flexible Learning - David
Harris
21 › Transformational Technologies: Exploring Myths and
Realities - Adrian Kirkwood
22 › “Plenty of Saps” - Alan Woodley
23 › What Happens in the Stretch to Flexibility? -
Katherine Nicoll
Conclusion: The Challenge of Weaving Principles with Practice -
Elizabeth Burge, Chere Campbell Gibson, and Terry Gibson
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