flek-suh-buhl lur-ning

No I'm not slurring my words, I'm just trying to define flexible learning. Here at Wintec:

Flexible learning is defined as offering education and training in a manner that best meets the needs of students, whether this be in the standard face to face classes, after-hours (evenings and weekend) classes, block courses or blended learning through a variable mixture of face to face and distance delivery strategies such as paper-based, video and e-learning technologies.

Maybe a picture would help? (They’re worth 10,000 words after all!) Mark Nicols blogged about (and incorporated into his first e-Primer) this diagram which removes some of the confusion surrounding many of the terms used to describe today’s teaching and learning landscape.

The e-learning continuum (Bullen & Janes, 2007, p. ix)

When considering the diagram it’s important to bear in mind that the use of digital technology is not a prerequisite for flexible learning—a face to face evening class, paper-based distance education and a fully online course can all be considered flek-suh-buhl lur-ning.