ABSTRACT
A course should be manageable. It should make reasonable demands on students in terms of scope, level, integration, workload and timescale. The main responsibility for these elements lies with those who design and deliver the course, but the management of learning is always a shared matter, and particularly so in the post-school field. Even in schools, pupils or students need to plan and prioritize their work, manage their time, and organize themselves to deliver what is required of them. In higher education, students have to take even more responsibility for their own learning, and if they are working at a distance from the institution they have to be largely self-directing and self-managing. Students may find a course difficult but that is not the same as finding it unmanageable. The former is usually expressed in terms of learning or understanding; the latter is typically couched in terms of coping or surviving.
