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Aidan University’s credit hours are fifty (50) minute hours. Students may anticipate being assigned 11⁄2 to 2 hours of homework for every one (1) hour in class.
Measurement of Florida Department of Education Commission for Independent Education
1. 6E-2.0041 Non-traditional College Programs.
a. “Semester unit” means either:
1) Fifteen hours of college or university level instruction during a semester, plus a
reasonable period of time outside of instruction which the college requires a student to devote to preparation for learning experience, such as preparation for instruction, study of course material, or completion of educational projects.
2) Planned learning experiences equivalent to the learning and preparation described above, as determined by duly qualified faculty responsible for evaluating learning outcomes for the award of unit credits.
Measurement of Aidan University:
These options are offered in the various Logos learning environments at the discretion of the Academic Dean.
Option A. – 15 week semester
Option B. – 12 week compressed semester with additional reading assignments
Option C. – Intensive weekend seminar format that includes AMFED reading requirement
Option D – Independent Study (see AMFED standards in E. below)
Equivalency Standards:
The following guidelines have been established after conferring with various institutions of higher education concerning a valid conversion of conventional class lecture hours into required reading for credit in a traditional or non-traditional program of education.
Three (3) credit hours of study are equal to one (1) fifty (50) minute lecture, three (3) times a week, for fifteen (15) weeks.
Fifteen (15) pages of reading equal one (1) class lecture [at the undergraduate level of study]. Athree credit hour course would require six-hundred and seventy-five (675) pages of reading at the undergraduate level of study if the course is an independent study or completed by correspondence. This reading requirement must include a written project or a final exam.
Twenty-five (25) pages of reading equal one (1) lecture at the graduate level of study. A three (3)credit hour course would require one-thousand, one-hundred and twenty-five (1,125) pages of reading. This reading requirement must include a written project or a final exam. One (1) credit hour per [five-thousand] 5,000 words can be awarded for a thesis or dissertation.
Institutions may use a combination of the above methods in order to achieve the minimum quantity standard for quality education.
The purpose of this requirement is to ensure that a student receives a certain quantity of education, which will lead to a quality education.
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