In Iraqi colleges and institutions:
Credit = 15 hours theoretical lectures or 30 hours practical sessions.
Can you share your institution curriculum credits?
I am happy to hear from you.
Best regards
Raid
Dear Prof Dr Raid M Al-Ani,
In India, the institutions affiliated the technological universities to it , have been conducting Engineering (B.Tech, M.Tech,PhD), Pharmacy (B.Pharm, M.Pharm, PhD), Management (MBA, PhD), Computer Applications (MCA, PhD) and Diploma in Engineering. These institutions are approved by All India Council for Technical Education AICTE . The Bachelors' programs are divided into 8 semesters and the students normally have 6 subjects to be learn t in each semester.
The course work is divided into
1. Mandatory subjects,
2. Elective subjects,
3.Lab courses,
4.Seminar and
5.Project work.
One credit is equivalent to 15 hours. A student is required to earn 190 credits in a minimum period of 8 semesters.
Each course, except few special courses, has a certain number of credits assigned to it depending upon the needs for its Lecture, Tutorial and Practical periods in a week. This weight-age is also indicative of the academic expectation that includes in-class contact and self-study outside of class hours.
The Experts allot an appropriate weight (L-T-P) to the course at the time of designing the scheme/syllabus of the Program. Fixing L-T-P for a course is an expert-decision based on the importance of that course in that program and endorsed by Board Of Studies (BOS)
The credits for courses can be computed from its components as below:-
Lectures and Tutorials: One lecture or 2 tutorial period per week is assigned one credit.
Practical/Laboratory: One laboratory period per week is assigned half credit.
The courses which are without any credit are referred to as Non-Credit (NC) courses.
The Credit of a course thus depends on its L-T-P structure.
Examples:-
1. Consider a course having its L-T-P structure as (3-1-2).
The Credits for this course will be 3+1+1 = 5 credits.
2. Consider a course having its L-T-P structure as (2-0-1).
The Credits for this course will be 2+0+.5 = 2.5 credits.
Thus our Credit systems are uniform.
Yes. There is. In my institution we use the CWA (Cumulative Weighed Average) as a uniform calculation method for students' scores. Best regards
Dickson
http://hec.gov.pk/english/services/universities/Documents/Draft-Policy-guidelines.pdf
please see page 4, 5, and 6
Dr Al-Ani, the system of calculating credit hours is the same as that of institutions in Iraq.
I think it is not uniform.In Namibia, a credit is equivalent to 10 notional hours. These 10 hours include theory, practical ans self study hours put together. 8 credits which is equivalent to 80 notional hours is equivalent to half a module and a full module has 16 credits I.e 160 notional hours
In the USA, the majority of universities have two semesters per year. In such institutions, each theoretical period is 50 minutes long per week per. A typical 3 credit course meets 3 periods per week. A student normally carries about 15 hours per week (15 credit hours). A practical period is 3 hours and receives only one credit.
In Jordan and Bahrain we are implementing the credit hours system by which the Academic year is divided into two main semesters. The academic semester is 45 weeks. Most of the courses have 3 credit hours weight mean three class (hours ) per week. the maximum hours per week can student carry is 18 hours (6 courses).
I guess US universities have pretty standardized calculation .
Usually, 1 hour is equals 2 hours of practicals; however, it may also be dependent on the nature of the course. Some course could be all practical, and others maybe sorely theoretical.
The credit hours system in Iraq taking in consider many criterion include ,the scientific attainment, Licensed (Prof.,Assis. prof....etc),the age .These criterion decrease the credit hours .
http://www.unideusto.org/tuningeu/workload-a-ects/177-educational-structures-learning-outcomes-workload-and-the-calculation-of-ects-credits.html
In the United States, one semester credit hour equals 15-16 contact hours per semester.
Dr Al-Ani, the system of calculating credit hours is the same as that of institutions in Iraq.
Dear Prof Dr Raid M Al-Ani,
In India, the institutions affiliated the technological universities to it , have been conducting Engineering (B.Tech, M.Tech,PhD), Pharmacy (B.Pharm, M.Pharm, PhD), Management (MBA, PhD), Computer Applications (MCA, PhD) and Diploma in Engineering. These institutions are approved by All India Council for Technical Education AICTE . The Bachelors' programs are divided into 8 semesters and the students normally have 6 subjects to be learn t in each semester.
The course work is divided into
1. Mandatory subjects,
2. Elective subjects,
3.Lab courses,
4.Seminar and
5.Project work.
One credit is equivalent to 15 hours. A student is required to earn 190 credits in a minimum period of 8 semesters.
Each course, except few special courses, has a certain number of credits assigned to it depending upon the needs for its Lecture, Tutorial and Practical periods in a week. This weight-age is also indicative of the academic expectation that includes in-class contact and self-study outside of class hours.
The Experts allot an appropriate weight (L-T-P) to the course at the time of designing the scheme/syllabus of the Program. Fixing L-T-P for a course is an expert-decision based on the importance of that course in that program and endorsed by Board Of Studies (BOS)
The credits for courses can be computed from its components as below:-
Lectures and Tutorials: One lecture or 2 tutorial period per week is assigned one credit.
Practical/Laboratory: One laboratory period per week is assigned half credit.
The courses which are without any credit are referred to as Non-Credit (NC) courses.
The Credit of a course thus depends on its L-T-P structure.
Examples:-
1. Consider a course having its L-T-P structure as (3-1-2).
The Credits for this course will be 3+1+1 = 5 credits.
2. Consider a course having its L-T-P structure as (2-0-1).
The Credits for this course will be 2+0+.5 = 2.5 credits.
Thus our Credit systems are uniform.
Dear Dr. Raid M. Al-Ani
Through my research. I have seen different curriculum credits depending on the type of the school; international or local. Type of study. .etc ..plus now each unversity have standard curriculum credits.
Usually, 2 hour of theory is equals 1 hours of practicals; however, it may also be dependent on the nature of the course. Some course could be all practical, and others maybe sorely theoretical. E.g. (Theory, Practical, Credit) => (2, 4, 4)
In basic education faculties we follow the system of courses, ie, the course of the course is 15 weeks
ECTS CREDITS AND METHODS OF CREDIT ALLOCATION
http://ci.univ-lille1.fr/english_version/pdf/credit_allocation.pdf
Dear Osmar,
Where do you work? It is supposed to be 25-30 hours for 1 ECTS.
Dear Raid M. Al-Ani
An academic credit is the unit that measures the training time of a student in higher education, based on the professional and academic skills that the program is expected to develop.
The usefulness of academic credits is to have a comparison parameter between the different training programs that exist and gives an idea of the quality of the same in relation to others.
A credit is a unit of measurement of the difficulty of a subject, based on which the price to be paid for enrollment is calculated. In principle, this is the explanation that is usually given. However, the perception of the difficulty involved in a given subject is something totally subjective.
Until the introduction of the Treaty of Bologna, the calculation was based on the number of hours (teaching load) taught by the teacher, so that a credit corresponded to 10 hours of academic training. But this system merely evaluated the teacher's effort to transmit knowledge and not that of the students when they understood it.
The Treaty of Bologna is the agreement that founded the European Higher Education Area for the achievement of numerous objectives of unification of criteria and improvement of the quality of education at a pan-European level.
With the Treaty of Bologna the classes are divided in two ways: master classes, in which the teacher makes an exhibition of the subject without the intervention of the students and, on the other hand, the interactive classes, where if the student intervenes by asking questions or , simply so that the teacher can make a more specialized class by distributing the total of the class in alternating groups, so that all the groups have the same hours of interactive sessions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_credit
In other countries outside Europe, the base described above can be followed; However, each Educational Institution or University, calculates the credits independently to these criteria, according to their teaching experience, hours of theory and practice, weight or academic load assigned to each subject, and according to the type of degree, master or doctorate .
regards
Jose Luis
The curriculum has mandatory course, elective course lab course and project work.
mandatory course has either 3 or 4 credit
elective course
always has 3 credit
lab course has 3 credit
project work has 6 credit.
The curriculum has mandatory course Lec.,Tut.,Lab
variable according to type of lecture
The UK credit system is different to numerous other European countries who use ECT credits. 10 UK credits is 5 ECTs I think.
It varies among institutions.
Follow this link: https://oucc.dasa.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2015/06/NCSU-Course-Instructional-Formats-2015_Posted-Final.pdf
In the institutes in Iraq there is no postgraduate studying ( master and doctorate) so we not deal with credits ,we have technological , medical and administrative departments .that follow the one yearly course contain 30 weeks ,, while the agricultural departments follow the 2 courses in each year , each course contain 15 weeks ,, Best regards ,, Jawad Ali
Dear Dr. Raid M. Al-Ani
Please attach both files. I hope can be useful for you.
Best Regards
How can we calculate a course credit with 2 hour theoretical and 3 hours practical lecture based on ECTS??
Most of the UK institutions use a single credit as equaling a notional 10 learning hours. Thus a 30 credit module will entail 300 notional hours or learning. How these are divided up and allocated will be subject, programme and institution specific.
These breakdowns have to be published, publicly in the UK (At undergraduate level) and can all be found and interrogated here: https://unistats.ac.uk/
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