This presentation provides an overview of a website to help staff adapt to and adopt Flexible Learning. The project to build this website began as an attempt to build resources to help staff act as facilitators for Problem-Based Learning (PBL).

Changing University and Faculty priorities suggested the need for a broad focus on equipping staff for flexible delivery rather than just PBL. The project was refocussed to include PBL as a later stage, with flexible delivery being the immediate objective.

Nevertheless, to address this stage of Flexible Learning requires coverage of a wide range of educational issues and information. The site adopts a four-stage view of flexible learning as: flexible delivery, project based learning, problem based learning and student directed (independent) learning, where each stage adopts that approach in order to support the staff development for that stage (ie Staff exposed to flexible delivery to learn about flexible delivery, staff placed in a problem-based learning environment to learn about PBL, etc..

The presentation discusses the various twists and turns in its development as well as some of the difficulties we had in presenting this material.

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