Module Workload

alan4cult

When you read the module information page it says something like this under the "How will I learn?" section:
Lectures=36
Tutorial=6
Autonomous Student Learning=78
Total Workload =120
I just want to know what is Autonomous Student Learning? I presume its your own work input but how can they possibilly know if your doing exactly 78 hours or are these figures merely guidelines?

Économiste Monétaire

It's a guideline. Basically, it's there to satisfy ECTS requirements on hours per credit. Usually 5 credit modules require between 100-120 hours. No one will be walking around with a board ticking how many hours you do. Autonomous student learning is the study, and reading, that you do outside of the classroom environment.

shanegj

I believe its study you do outside of lectures in your free time, its just a guideline as you said

Red Alert

It's a guideline used to weight different courses off one another depending on what's ideally the overall workload. So for example if you've a 'nuts and bolts' type course about basic concepts you'd have more contact time and less autonomous time than maybe a more specialised stage 2/3/4 module.