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Flexible pedagogy, flexible practice : notes from the trenches of distance education
Dare we question an established canon of practice when it seems so selfevidently good? Yes indeed. The word flexibility and its adjective root, flexible, have gained such popularity in higher-education discourse and marketing strategies over the past few decades that it is time to dig into these words anew, with reflective and critical intent. Being our own discourse archaeologists should help us to unearth those less-visible and often taken-for-granted dynamics that help and hinder efforts toward flexibility, however we may define the term.
It is time now to gather these essays and section summaries into an ending. From this rich selection of material, we have extracted questions and challenges that especially caught our attention. These we have arranged into six sections: general impressions, defining flexibility, assessing institutional politics and change dynamics, designing and managing flexibility for students and teachers, false promises and false prophets, and interrogating our practice. Because we wished to preserve their voices, we have often quoted our contributors directly.
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