How We Work

Our student-centred flexible learning program aims to meet individual needs by providing choices that allow students to meet their own educational requirements in ways suiting their individual circumstances. Choices may be offered in:

• time and/or place of study
  - opportunities to study at home or your workplace

• learning styles and preferences
  - the availability of a range of learning resources and tasks to suit individual needs;

• contextualised learning
  - the ability to tailor some or all of the learning content, process, outcomes or assessment to individual circumstances;

• access
  - flexible entry requirements, multiple annual starting points, recognition of prior learning, articulation between programs of study and cross-crediting arrangements;

• pace
  - unit completion on the basis of achievement of specified competencies rather than according to a pre-determined calendar;

• progression
  - flexible progression requirements and teaching periods allowing accelerated or delayed completion of study.

Our student-centred approach requires different teaching methodologies and also different relationship between assessors, teachers and students. In comparison to traditional educational models, flexible learning is broadly characterised by:

• an emphasis on guided independent learning by facilitating the learning process directing students to appropriate resources, tasks and learning outcomes.
• a greater reliance on quality learning resources using a range of technologies (e.g., print, CD-ROM, video, audio, the Internet)
• an increasing use of information technology (IT) by using IT to deliver learning resources, providing a communications facility, administering units and student assessment, and hosting student support systems.

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