These papers discuss flexible learning, the term used to describe more learner-centred approaches to teaching and learning, and its potential application in colleges and universities. Flexible learning offers these institutions opportunities to improve their quality of instruction.

Universities, colleges and training providers are experiencing considerable changes in the demands made on them as a result of, for example, growing student numbers and the changing needs of employers. Flexible learning, the term used to describe more learner-centred approaches to teaching and learning, offers these institutions opportunities to improve the quality of their instruction while better meeting the needs of learners.