Champion for change: learning development at the University of Sunderland

There are many different and apparently equally valid definitions of the term ‘open learning’ all of which encompass the qualities of flexibility of time, pace and place. Thus distance learning is one form of open learning. The next discussion derives from the question ‘what is distance learning?’ The University of Sunderland has examples of a variety of delivery and support strategies amongst the open and distance learning opportunities it offers.