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AHEC-sponsored
activities
An activity jointly
sponsored by a regional AHEC and a health science school within the UNC-Chapel
Hill Division of Health Affairs may have CEUs approved through the cooperating
school.
When an activity is
sponsored by a regional AHEC whose activity coordinator holds an academic
appointment in a health science school within the Division of Health Affairs,
or when the primary faculty for the activity are from UNC-Chapel Hill,
the activity may be approved through the appropriate UNC-Chapel Hill health
science school.
If the activity coordinator
does not hold an academic appointment in a health science school and the
primary faculty are not from UNC-Chapel Hill, CEUs should be approved
through the regional AHEC rather than through UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Distance
education activities
The CEU may be used
as a unit of measurement for distance education activities, including
courses offered online, correspondence courses, and comparable formats
that do not carry degree credit but meet the UNC-Chapel Hill CEU operating
standards.
The operating standard
regarding specification of activity hours presents a special challenge
in the case of distance education activities. Because this method of instruction
usually does not rely on face-to-face meeting between instructor and learner,
an alternative rationale is used for assigning CEUs for this type of continuing
education experience. That rationale is as follows:
- Where the objectives
of the distance education activity are the same as those for a parallel
course in residence, the number of activity hours will be assumed to
be the same as in the residence course, unless it can be effectively
demonstrated that a significantly different number of hours is required
to accomplish course objectives under each of the two methods.
- Where a parallel
residence course having identical objectives does not exist, or where
it is likely that the number of hours required to accomplish course
objectives will differ significantly in a distance education activity
and a residence course, a determination must be made of the time needed
to perform all the exercises, study questions, and other course assignments.
This determination should be made by mutual agreement of the developer
of the distance education course and the coordinator of the continuing
education activity, by estimating the amount of time the average student
will need to complete all of the required work in the course. This determination
is subject to the approval of the Director of the Friday Center for
Continuing Education.
Although the procedure
outlined here calls for the course developer to make an estimate prior
to the initial offering of the course, this determination may be adjusted
by mutual agreement of the course instructor, the coordinator of the continuing
education activity, and the Director of the Friday Center in light of
the actual experience of a representative group of initial enrollees in
a distance education activity. The adjusted CEU value would apply only
to individuals enrolling after the revisions were approved.
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