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The foundation that created the credit hour in 1906 now wants to rethink it, with a shift that might help competency-based higher education.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on Tuesday announced that it would use a $460,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to study the Carnegie Unit, which forms the basis of a time-based measurement of student learning. The credit hour calls for one credit per hour of faculty instruction and two hours of homework, on a weekly basis, over a 15-week semester.
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/12/05/carnegie-foundation-considers-redesign-credit-hour#ixzz2EDxFT4b7
Inside Higher Ed
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on Tuesday announced that it would use a $460,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to study the Carnegie Unit, which forms the basis of a time-based measurement of student learning. The credit hour calls for one credit per hour of faculty instruction and two hours of homework, on a weekly basis, over a 15-week semester.
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/12/05/carnegie-foundation-considers-redesign-credit-hour#ixzz2EDxFT4b7
Inside Higher Ed
