Fixed Credit VS Open credit systems

open credits vs fixed credits. Youth thoughts

Academic credits or university credits are an important part of international education you will need to know more about, as it will help you better understand how your progress is evaluated during your studies or how you can transfer credits points to study at a university abroad.

 Now We will know about What is an academic credit system? An academic credit system is a standard used by universities to measure and assess students’ work and effort during their Bachelor's, Master's or PhD programme. . Each course is assigned the same or different number of credit hours. Students complete a required number of credit hours by taking a certain number of compulsory and where applicable, optional courses. This is the scenario for all universities in Bangladesh- public and private. However, the manner of course offering differs between public and private universities. The course offering in public universities is essentially a closed credit system, while that in private universities is essentially an open credit system. It may be helpful for students making a decision to go to university to know about these two types of credit systems. The central difference between closed credit and open credit systems is in the degree of freedom students have in course selection (CS). Under the closed credit system, students have minimal freedom, while under the open credit system students have wider flexibility in making a CS decision. Under a closed credit system, the department or institute predetermines certain criteria of a CS decision for the student. These are designed within the syllabus of course offering. Six important criteria for each semester or academic year include: 

(a) what course will be taken; 

(b) in which semester the course will be taken (timing); 

(c) how many courses will be taken in a semester;

 (d) how many courses will be related to the honours and how many will be related to allied subjects; 

(e) who will be the course instructor; and

 (f) on which day and in what time slot the course will be offered.

 A closed credit system may include optional courses for specialization in a particular field. Students have freedom in their CS decisions, but even then the department or institute determines in which year (semester) they will take these courses; the course instructor and at what time of the week and time slot in the day. Under an open credit system, students have a certain degree of freedom in making the above CS decisions on their own. Know more about it connected with us..

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