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Download full textLaitinen, Amy – New America Foundation, 2012
The basic currency of higher education--the credit hour--represents the root of many problems plaguing America's higher education system: the practice of measuring time rather than learning. "Cracking the Credit Hour" traces the history of this time-based unit, from the days of Andrew Carnegie to recent federal efforts to define a credit…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Credits, Measurement, Educational History
Polcyn, Kenneth A. – Educational Technology, 1974
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Educational Experiments, Educational Television, Formative Evaluation
