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Asynchronous Online Education Credit Hours by the Book

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Translation Policy
The third finding of the study was that no policy or practice translating asynchronous
learning into credit hour values was found. Documentation and responses from interviews
indicated that online education followed the same process as classroom instruction. More
specifically, online courses used classroom curricula and standards to promote the same rigor
and content as traditional learning.
Accreditation standards of the Middle States required that all instructional modalities
were “comparable to those offered in more traditional formats” (Middle States Commission on
Higher Education 2002, 44). Other d