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.
Ways 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.
Resources, reports and publications on flexible learning
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.
Professional Development Opportunities
Our portfolio will help you build or refresh your pedagogy throughout your career. Below you will find our upcoming development opportunities:
Meet our experts
Stuart Norton, PFHEA
Head of Educational Excellence , Advance HE
Stuart has over 20 years’ experience within higher education with extensive experience in designing and developing strategic, institutional-wide change.
In his role as Head of Educational Excellence at Advance HE, he focuses on both thought leadership and providing evidence-based solutions to support institutions, educators and students.
Professor Mark O’Hara
Senior Consultant, Education , Advance HE
Professor Mark O’Hara is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a National Teaching Fellow and a winner of the Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence in the UK. Mark is a former Chair of the UK’s CATE-Network and has over 30 years’ experience leading educational change in a wide variety of roles including undergraduate and postgraduate programme leadership, Head of Student Experience, Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching and Academic Quality and Associate PVC (Education).
