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| Preface |
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Flexible learning, work and human resource development |
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| PART I Setting the scene for flexible learning |
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A global society needs flexible learning |
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Digital technology and university sovereignty: compatibility or collision course? |
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Exploring the concept of flexibility |
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The politics of flexible learning: opportunities and challenges in a globalised world |
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| PART II Putting the theory to work |
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Reconfiguring institutional strategies for flexible learning and delivery |
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Managing institutional change and the pressures for new appraoches to teaching and learning |
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Forging policies in flexible learning |
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| PART III The implications of flexible learning for practice |
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`Human' resource management, `flexible' learning and difference: a feminist exploration |
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Pedagogical implications of flexible learning |
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Using media and technologies for flexible workplace learning |
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Flexible delivery and flexible learning: developing flexible learners? |
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Flexible learning, postmodernity and the contemporary workplace |
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Flexible learning, work and the management of `intellectual' capital |
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| PART IV Conclusion |
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Flexible learning and the construction of `working knowledge' |
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