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Cooperating to Meet the Challenge of Credit Transfer: U.S. and International Perspectives. ISEP Biennial conference 2008 Washington DC, 20 - 22 November 2008. Introduction: Credit Transfer European perspectives. Monica Nylund 22 November 2008 ISEP Biennial conference 2008. Credit transfer.
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Cooperating to Meet the Challenge of Credit Transfer: U.S. and International Perspectives ISEP Biennial conference 2008 Washington DC, 20 - 22 November 2008
Introduction:Credit TransferEuropean perspectives Monica Nylund 22 November 2008 ISEP Biennial conference 2008
Credit transfer • Learning agreement (study plan/course request list) • Contract between the student, the home university and the host university • Credits will count towards the student’s degree at the home university
Learning agreement • In Europe introduced by the Erasmus-programme • Europe before the Bologna process: wide differences, but the aim was to exchange students despite the differences in the systems • The Bologna process is about dialogue, “wiping out confusions” (Guy Haug)
ECTS • European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System • a tool for facilitating the recognition of the courses for exchange students when returning to their home institution • not based on contact hours, but efforts. The number of hours a student would need to reach the set objectives of a course
the aim within ISEP is also to exchange students despite the differences in academic systems • to have an open dialogue, and to try to understand each other’s systems