This book addresses contemporary contexts of flexible learning and its practices, and looks at the directions in which education and training providers may be required to go, in order to implement flexible learning.

Foreword. Contributors. Setting the Scene for Flexible Learning A global society needs flexible learning Margaret Haughey. Digital technology and university sovereignty: compatibility or collision course? Ross Paul. Exploring the concept of flexibility Ted Nunan. The politics of flexible learning opportunities and challenges in a globalised world Viktor Jakupec. Putting the Theory To Work Reconfiguring institutional strategies for flexible learning and delivery John Bottomley. Managing institutional change and the pressures for new approaches to teaching and learning Bruce King. Forging policies in flexible learning Richard Edwards and Alan Tait. Implications of Flexible Learning for Practice 'Human' resource management, 'flexible' learning and difference: a feminist exploration Leonie Rowan. Pedagogical implications of flexible learning Mary Thorpe. Using media and technologies for flexible workplace learning David Hawkridge. Flexible delivery and flexible learning: developing flexible learners? Terry Evans . Flexible learning, post modernity and the contemporary workplace Robin Usher. Flexible learning, work and the management of 'intellectual' capital John Garrick. Conclusion Flexible learning, human resource development and the construction of 'working knowledge' John Garrick and Viktor Jakupec. Index.