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The Credit Hour and Faculty Instructional Workload

✍ Scribed by Thomas Ehrlich

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2003
Weight: 57 KB
Volume: 2003
Category: Article
ISSN: 0271-0560
DOI: 10.1002/he.109

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The credit hour is the common metric for measuring faculty instructional workload and is a part of a larger system that makes innovation more difficult.

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