Advances in digital tools, technologies and artificial intelligence are driving changes to how and where we will work and continue to learn across our lifetimes. Flexible learning empowers students to become independent life-long learners, fostering the self awareness, agency and active learning strategies required to succeed in an evolving work environment.
We can help you:
- Audit Your Provision: Conduct thorough reviews of your current flexible learning offerings to identify strengths and development areas.
- Build Staff Capability: Deliver targeted professional development to equip academics with the skills to design and facilitate effective flexible learning experiences.
- Develop Strategic Frameworks: Create institutional approaches that embed flexible learning pathways across your curriculum, ensuring consistency and quality.
Framework for Flexible Learning
Flexible learning is an educational approach that employs pedagogically informed technologies to create personalised, engaging learning experiences, allowing students to choose how, what, when, and where they learn. Advance HE's Framework for Flexible Learning provides a structured approach to help higher education institutions develop, implement, and evaluate flexible learning opportunities.
Explore our latest resources, reports and publications on flexible learning
The inclusive curriculum in higher education
This literature review makes a proportionate contribution to help practitioners, policymakers and researchers inform their own research or practice by focusing on relevant questions, issues and sources of evidence concerning the inclusive curriculum.
Flexible learning: a literature review 2016 - 2021
Conducted by Professor Mark Loon of Northumbria University, this literature review aims to identify flexible learning trends, issues and impact from 2016 to the end of 2021, with particular focus on identifying 'what works' in the design, development and implementation of flexible learning.
GenAI use in higher education: stakeholder perceptions and attitudes
The integration of GenAI in HE is a rapidly evolving topic, yet there remains limited data on the attitudes and perceptions of diverse stakeholders within the sector. This research project aims to fill this gap by conducting research across a range of HE institutions to gather data on the attitudes and perceptions of students, academic staff, and professional services staff towards the use of GenAI.
The series convened experts from various backgrounds to explore the integration of artificial intelligence in educational settings. The aim was capture the views of people at all levels, starting with students, lecturers, and professional services staff, moving on to a leadership perspective, and finally to senior leaders and administrators to capture the strategic perspective.
Multimodal Learning: A Practitioner Guide
This guide to multimodal learning in higher education, including case studies from HE around the world, aims to help practitioners turn their multimodal ideas into teaching practices.
Hybrid Higher: Hybrid working and leadership in higher education
The Hybrid Higher initiative brought together senior colleagues from across the sector with responsibility for planning future work and operational models. Through facilitated discussion in two webinar workshops colleagues worked to develop a picture of the challenges and opportunities involved in hybrid working.
Beyond Flexible Learning - practice guide
This practice guide for course teams designing and delivering learning, describes the three key teaching modalities that may contribute to blended learning. The practice guide was informed by the six case studies from the Collaborative Development Fund Future Student Experience project.
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Professional Development Opportunities
Our portfolio will help you build or refresh your pedagogy throughout your career. Below you will find our upcoming development opportunities linked to flexible learning:
Employability Symposium 2025
30 April 2025
Virtual
Educational Excellence Symposium 2025
20 May 2025
Virtual
Leading Educational Change in Irish HE Symposium 2025
28 May 2025
Maynooth University, Ireland
Inclusive Pedagogy Symposium 2025
10 June 2025
Virtual
Teaching and Learning Conference 2025
1 – 3 July 2025
Sheffield, UK
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