Flexible Learning provides learners with real opportunities for increased choice, convenience, and personalisation to suit the learner.

In summary, flexible learning provides learners with choices about where, when, and how learning occurs. Flexible learning recognises the reality of students' busy schedules and provides multiple delivery modes, which allow students the greatest possible window of access to course materials.

Flexible learning also recognises that different students have different learning preferences and requirements. This concept is sometimes understood as flexible delivery, which involves offering students different modes of study, which might include using different modes of delivery for course materials, including web-based, CDs, DVDs and so on.

However, flexibility can also refer to curriculum design that offers students some element of choice, either in course content or course assessment. Students can be offered choices between different modes of assessment and different content focus. Flexible learning applies to both part time and full time courses and modules.