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FLEXIBILISATION, PERSONALISATION

DIFFERENTIATION

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^{‘The curriculum is one. What is the curriculum? It has to do with giving students what they didn’t ask for. For me, this is one of the most important things of being an educator. Not to give students what they ask for, but to give what they didn’t ask for or weren’t looking for. (...) This is because students may not even know that they could be looking for it or asking for it, and the educator's work is to open doors, particularly where students didn’t even know that there was a door. (...)}^{The future of education, should not be confused with the future of learning in an impulssociety with flexible learning environment, teachers as facilitators, and personalised learning.’}
Gert Biesta 2025, p.7, also 2022, p. 70-71.

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EDITORIAL: SETTING THE SCENE

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Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc)
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Where does this design angle come in?
Flexibilisation, personalisation and differentiation, typically come in only after the fit for purpose framework has been drafted, thus in a later stage of the (re)design stages of a course, training or (master)degree.

A good way to scope your knowledge domain is with a Development Journey.

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FLEXIBILISATION

Find some search terms related to flexibility below, just to illustrate or help you to find your own resources.

^{Curricular choice

Curricular freedom

Curriculum planning

Curriculum agency

Student agency

Elective course choice

Curriculum customization

Professional development planning

Elective curriculum

Flexible curriculum

Modular curriculum

Choice-based curriculum

Student centered curriculum

Individual educational paths (or plans)

Differentiation

Learning ecology

Permeable curriculum

Responsive curriculum

Nonlinear curriculum

Hyflex / Hiflex curriculum}

Inspired by a first scoping of the meaning of ‘flexible curriculum’ Eveline Kallenberg, PhD candidate Utrecht Medical Centre

KEY PROJECTS

MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE (MOOC) funded by the ERC
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2025 - 2026 (1 year)
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StudioBlended is currently partnering with an institute for capacity building within a European University, to co-create an impactful MOOC for this client (2025-June 2026).

The curriculum design is completely modular, and offers modular differentiation options next to the main learning journey, in the form of a playful ‘library’ with knowledge video clips for those who need to update their knowledge. The knowledge clips provide defintions of ‘jargon’ terms in the discours, and the background against which the discussion around context-based humanitarians can be understood. For those who are eager to learn more, there are extra materials, from the rich spectrum of resources of the research centre.

European funded program.

More information follows soon.

We ran a pilot with ‘Learning Ecology’, offering a modular approach with individual pathways from our Design Angles to PhD candidates from the South of Europe. We discovered how such an approach unfolds in practice in terms of teacher resilience, and how to ensure effective learning for the student.

The suggested power of the learning ecology concept lies in overcoming the rigid separation of formal and informal learning, by combining a continuum of contexts to deepen your learning journey, mediated by digital technology (After Sangra, Raffaghelli, and Guitert-Catasus 2019).

Curious after our results? Have a look under ‘modular’. Eager to exchange experiences? Feel free to contact us directly
tikvah@studioblended.com

OUR FINITE SET OF DESIGN ANGLES

Technical resilience
Big ideas
Paradigm shifts/decade strong
Simplicity and decluttering
Human resilience
Modular
Innovative and deep pedagogy
Assesment / evaluation
Time dimension
Evidence-based design
Financial health and resilience by (re)design
Multi- Inter- and transdisciplinary
Flexibilisation and personalisation
Blended

REFERENCES

Biesta, G. (2025). ‘The Future of Education in an Impuls Society: Why schools and teachers matter’, Prospects, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-025-09723-1This article is a verbatim transcript of a lecture given on 19 April 2024 at the University of Lisbon as part of a series of invited UNESCO lectures on the future of education.

Biesta, G. (2022) World-Centered Education; A view for the present. New York and London: Routledge.

European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) (2025) ‘Personalisation of Education. Enhaning equity, Learner Agency, and Academic Success’. Co-funded by the European Union. Available: https://zenodo.org/records/17279059?utm_source=Personalisation+of+E%2E%2E%2E+%28Mass+Mailing+created+on+2025-10-14%29+%5B2%5D&utm_medium=Email (Accessed: October 27, 2025).

Li, K.C., Wong, B.Y.Y. (2018). ‘Revisiting the Definitions and Implementation of Flexible Learning’, in: Li, K., Yuen, K., Wong, B. (eds) Innovations in Open and Flexible Education. Education Innovation Series. Singapore: Springer. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7995-5_1 (Accessed: October 27, 2025).

Patall, E.A., Sylvester, B. J., Han, C. (2014), ‘The role of competence in the effects of choice on motivation’, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 50, pp. 27-44. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103113001571 (Accessed December 10, 2025). Surf (2023). ‘Future Campus trend report: A look at the Future of the Campus in 2040’. Available: https://www.surf.nl/files/2023-06/surf_trendrapport-future-campus_web_nl.pdf (Accessed: October 27, 2025).

Tucker, R., Gayle, M. (2011) ‘Anytime, anywhere anyplace: articulating the meaning of flexible delivery in built environment education’, British Journal of Educational Technology. October 2010, 42(6) : 904-915. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01138.x

Verkoeien, P. (2025) ‘Flexibility, motivation and learning: Opportunities and Challenges.’ Community for Learning & Innovation (CLI) Lunch & Learn, Erasmus University, 9 October.
Professor of applied sciences, Brain and Learning research group, Center of Expertise Future- proof Education (Avans University of Applied Sciences). Endowed professor of educational and cognitive psychology, Methods and Skills team, Department of Psychology, Education, and Child Studies (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Wade, W., Hodgkinson, K., Smith, A. and Arfield, J. (1994). Flexible Learning in Higher Education (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education). Routledge, UK. Availalbe: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315041575 (Accessed: October 27, 2025).

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