Developing the Credit-based Modular Curriculum in Higher Education »

This text provides guidance for building curriculum structures and examines the models that can be used. Options such as accreditation of prior and experiential learning, incompany accreditation, work-based learning,

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Educators from Anglia Polytechnic University introduce the concept of genuinely credit-based modular systems to readers not familiar with the debate, and examine the dilemmas surrounding them including those related to the accreditation of prior and experiential learning, in- company accreditation, work-based learning, negotiated awards, and related flexible approaches. They say neither supporters and opponents of the approach have addressed the underlying dilemma of grafting a flexible structure onto a curriculum philosophy based on traditional British education. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)