How Flinders U makes on-line enabling a happy place: the programmes’ learning to learn focus, helps students success as independent learners

On-line Enabling programs, which have been dubbed ‘uncomfortable spaces’, raise legitimate questions around the neo-liberal nature of higher education versus the importance of equity, access and widening participation. Is delivering this type of programme on-line a cost-efficient grab for more students or a genuine opportunity to reach students who, for many reasons, have been educationally excluded or marginalised?

Could a programme, intentionally and thoughtfully designed to navigate that uncomfortable on-line space, achieve improved student outcomes and an enhanced student experience? COVID-19 gave us a forced opportunity to re-design our enabling programme across multiple delivery modes and guess what: it works...