ABSTRACT
At the heart of CBMS is the potential for flexibility. It provides an opportunity within an institution to make use of a module across a range of different degree courses, to build new courses quickly from an existing stock of modules and to provide differentiated routes within a degree programme. Similarly, if the institution so wishes it can provide courses which allow students to make a substantial amount of choice about the nature of the course they wish to be on. CBMS is adaptable to the different needs and contexts of institutions. There is a continuum of different patterns of CBMS based on degrees of course flexibility and student choice. All students start their educational career with a theoretically blank curriculum which needs to be filled in (Figure 2.1).
