On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 16:52, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
That's very interesting. A normal course here is 15 ECTS, with the big courses at 30 ECTS. This is a comparatively small course of 7.5 ECTS credits, which in Sweden means about 5 weeks of full-time studies (this is part time, so it's 10 weeks).
How many hours of lectures/exercises is that then? The smallest course we have here is 3 ECTS points. That is 15 hours of lectures.
That does sound like a lot of lectures. This obviously depends on what the course is about. A theoretical course has much more lectures than a practical course. But in general, a lot of focus here is on the students ability to work in groups to learn by themselves, rather than having someone lecture at them for lengths.
Looking at some of our courses, the amount of lectures seems to vary between 2 and 4 hours per ECTS credit. However, it should be said, those courses with fewer lectures often have more time when the students should prepare and give presentations to each other.
Jonas