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course credit/credit transfer  

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  • Academic course credit, credit hour, and unit of credit are all terms that refer to a unit of measure used by higher education institutions to place a value on the amount of time or learning a course's content encompasses. Each course offered by an institution is assigned a value of how many credits or units it is worth. [Source: Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning; Course Credit/Credit Transfer]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/course_credit_credit_transfer

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