What kind of flexibility should be given to learners in choice of subjects and areas of learning, so that learners have the ability to choose their learning trajectories and programmes, and thereby choose their own paths in life according to their talents and interests?
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Flexible learning is a state of being in which learning and teaching is increasingly freed from the limitations of the time, place and pace of study. But this kind of flexibility does not end there. For learners, flexibility in learning may include choices in relation to entry and exit points, selection of learning activities, assessment tasks and educational resources in return for different kinds of credit and costs. And for the teachers it can involve choices in relation to the allocation of their time and the mode and methods of communication with learners as well as the educational institution. As such flexible learning, in itself, is not a mode of study. It is a value principle, like diversity or equality are in education and society more broadly. Flexibility in learning and teaching is relevant in any mode of study including campus-based face-to-face education.In the early days of this initiative, flexible learning opportunities at USP went by the name of extension studies suggesting an effort by the university to extend credit-bearing learning and teaching opportunities beyond the boundaries of its physical campuses. The print technology and the postal mail service formed the backbone of this learning and teaching transaction. But as information and communications technologies including electronic mail began to supersede the use of print and the postal mail, the concept of written correspondence via the postal service was no longer an adequate descriptor of the educational transaction that was taking place.