Pet peeves on use of terminology

[sanantone]

...I wish there was more standardization in terminology... 

I do too.  Perhaps that would be something for the accreditors to attend to but regardless of that, it's always good to read the glossary.

That's if a glossary of academic terms exists, which it oftentimes doesn't. When it does exist, they're usually not going to define "go at your own pace."

Yes, I wasn't speaking literally.  I meant that one should know the definitions of the terms as they are being used.  As you know, sometimes you have to dig a bit in order to develop that understanding.  As for the whole "go at your own pace" idea, my experience has been that "self-paced" typically mean "accelerated."  As someone who has sometimes wanted to slow things down I would say that's a misnomer.

Yeah, it means speed up or slow down. At Merrimack, they believe that the ability to take more or fewer credits makes their program special. You have to ask the program director to take more than the maximum credit limit, which is something that's already done at traditional colleges.