The Credit Hour as a Potential Barrier to Innovation: Lessons from Innovative Institutions

✍ Scribed by Thomas Ehrlich

• Book ID: 102230901
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Weight: 59 KB
• Volume: 2003
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-0560
• DOI: 10.1002/he.108

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The premise of the credit hour is the equation of student learning with class time. Leaders at institutions particularly known for innovations in student learning have found ways to work with and around the metric, although it remains an obstacle to innovation at most institutions.