Re: IACET CEU conversion to Academic Credits

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North Central Texas College
http://www.nctc.edu/Continuing_education/ConcurrentClasses.htm

GUIDELINES - CONVERTING TO CREDIT

Students completing a course for CEUs may later apply to have
the course counted for regular semester-hour college credit.
If converted to college credit, the course may then be
counted toward requirements for a certificate or a degree.
Students who wish to convert the course to college-credit may
be required to pass a course content exam.
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Emergency Management Institute / Independent Study Program

http://training.fema.gov/IS/ceus.asp

IS Courses' CEUs and College Credits
* CEU: 0.1 CEU = 1 Contact Hour.

** College Credits are granted upon submission of application
& payment. See “College Credit” for details.

Course Title (course code,Title) CEUs * College Credits **
IS-1 Emergency Manager 1.0 1.0

IS-3 Radiological Emergency Management 1.0 1.0

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On 6/28/09, FYI wrote:
> [DOC] Structure of the US Education System: Continuing
> Education Units ...
> International Affairs Office, U.S. Department of
> Education Feb 2008
> http://www.ed.gov/international/usnei/edlite-index.html
>
> Above Article contains the following,
>
> Structure of the U.S. Education System:
>
> Continuing Education Units (CEU)
>
>
> Continuing education units, or CEUs, are awarded by many
> education and training providers to signify successful
> completion of non-credit programs and courses intended to
> improve the knowledge and skills of working adults. Among
> the most common uses of CEUs are to record refresher,
> transitional, or knowledge improvement accomplishments for
> professional workers undergoing what is called continuing
> professional education.
>
>
> The typical CEU represents approximately ten (10) contact
> hours of experience in a structured continuing education
> experience (class, seminar, retreat, practicum, self-study,
> etc.) that is supervised in some way by a qualified
> continuing education provider.
>
>
> CEUs are similar in theory to academic credits but differ
> in two important respects:
>
>
> CEUs are not awarded for academic study and do not
> represent, or provide, academic credit; and
>
>
> They may be awarded for a variety of experiences in
> different settings whose only common criterion is that they
> be measurable, supervised educational or training
> experiences with defined starting and ending points.
>
>
>
> CEU Conversion
>
>
> Some CEUs can be converted into academic credit hours.
> This is done by both higher education institutions and
> special examining and assessment services. Academic credit
> can only be granted for CEUs if (1) the subject matter and
> nature of the CEU experience is approved as applicable to
> consideration for academic credit; (2) the continuing
> education experience has been analyzed for content and
> level and, if necessary, the person holding the CEUs has
> been examined; and (3) a formal recommendation is made by
> competent academic authorities (faculty, review board,
> etc.) based on an agreed conversion formula. CEUs are most
> commonly converted via a formula that considers at least
> ten (10) CEUs to equal a single academic credit hour.
>
>
> The most authoritative U.S. guide to CEUs is provided by
> the International Association for Continuing Education and
> Training (IACET).
>
>
> Information on converting CEUs to academic credit hours,
> and vice versa, is provided by the American Council on
> Education (ACE).
>
>
>
> See also: U.S. Grading Systems
>
> Assessment
>
> Standardized Tests
>
> U.S. Credit Systems
>
> File Format: Microsoft Word - View as HTML
> The most authoritative U.S. guide to CEUs is provided by
> the International Association for Continuing Education and
> Training (IACET). ...
> www.ed.gov/international/usnei/us/ceu.doc
>
>
>
>
> Experiential Credit Conversion
>
> Comparing U.S. and Other Credit Systems
>
>
>
> Return to Structure of U.S. Education
>
> Return to USNEI Home Page
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