Flexible Higher Education: Reflections from Expert Experience
1st Edition
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9780335234851
© 2007 | Published: October 16, 2007
"It is both uplifting and challenging. It offers tales of great persistence, self-belief and belief in the community of learners these pioneers were seeking to engage with and influence. It is a wonderful narrative which should be compulsory reading …
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- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
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Being autobiographical: who’s who
Part 1 Introducing the book
- ‘Breaking new ground’
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Liz Burge
Part 2 The pioneers reflect
- Facing challenges: ‘no prior experience’, quality and management
- Liz Burge
- Guiding their practice: access, respect and responsiveness
- Liz Burge
- Managing technology: strategy, strengths and critique
- Liz Burge
- Learning from experience: hard-won lessons
- Liz Burge
- Looking forward: changes, concerns, advice and research
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Liz Burge
Part 3 The commentators meta-reflect
- From Educating Rita to iPods and beyond
- Michael Collins
- Some experiences of a distance educator
- Sir John Daniel
- Passionate pioneers
- Yvonne Hillier
- Critical minds for a change
- Michael Grahame Moore
- On chaos, connection and challenge
- David Murphy
- Resilience, relevance, and realism
- Diana G. Oblinger
- Culture, technology and making choices
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Barbara Spronk
Part 4 Assessing relevance
- Continuing construction: where now?
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Liz Burge
Part 5 Literature suggestions
- Subject index
- Name Index