Education and training for cleaner production: a flexible learning approach

Successful implementation of cleaner production concepts at the government and industry level requires that professionals in those institutions receive adequate education and training in this field. In the recent past, most of the higher learning institutions around the world have incorporated cleaner production as a subject in their curricula. In order to satisfy the specific needs of busy professionals, higher learning institutions need to use new technologies to facilitate cleaner production training. The flexible learning approach used at Griffith University is one of these valuable tools. This paper introduces some of the key concepts of flexible learning and investigates how they can be effectively used in education and training for cleaner production.