Student learning as academic currency
By: Sally M. Johnstone, Peter Ewell, Karen Paulson
Contributors: Ewell, Peter; Paulson, Karen; American Council on Education. Center for policy analysis; EDUCAUSE (Association)
Series: Distributed education: challenges, choices, and a new environment
Publisher: American Council on Education
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Distance education
Description: This monograph explores how distribued education challenges the traditional methods of measuring student learning in credit hours based on "seat time."
Notes: "This is the fourth monograph in a series of invited papers on distributed education commissioned by the American Council on Education (ACE) and EDUCASE."--p. iii.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 23).
Table of contents: title: Foreword --; title: Introduction --; title: Academic currency and distributed education --; title: Lessons learned from history --; title: What would a seamless system actually look like? -- -- A; title: system of student learning as currency: why now? --; title: Policy implications --; title: Summary.