Acronym for European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Since 1989 it has become a standard for comparing the study attainment and performance of students in tertiary education across the EU and other collaborating European countries. A full-time student needs to complete 60 ECTS per academic year, which represents about 1,500 to 1,800 hours of study. The use of the ECTS by institutions is not compulsory. According to the ECTS, study programs in Europe are worth the following number of credits: Bachelor's degrees (first cycle) are worth 180 - 240 ECTS (3 to 4 years), Master's programs (second cycle) are worth 60 - 120 ECTS (1 to 2 years), PhD studies (third cycle) have no ECTS range
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Designing Blended Learning Strategies for Rich Content
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0877-9.ch017
Abstract
Today, an immense amount of photorealistic and high quality medical information circulates over the Internet, whether copyright protected and distributed under license from learning portals or simply freely available. Certified textual data along with audiovisual material that has been gathered from medical professional practices may be used for the production of learning objects for multimedia learning. The use of Content Management Systems (CMS) and Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) allow a vast array of images, videos, animations and sounds to be offered through e-Learning. In many professions, e-Learning is the norm. Accordingly, in medicine there is a tendency to blend in the first years of study more and more online material that leads to extensive multimedia learning. However, not all clinical courses within hospitals and examinations can be replaced by media rich content.