The Credit/No Credit model of grading has no end of virtues and is warmly embraced by students and lecturers alike.
In concept, credit/no credit means that rather than a grade for their work, students receive extensive and constructive feedback. This fosters a culture where students produce much more experimental work, frequently surprising their lecturers, and moving between different disciplines, inventing the kinds of objects, issues and archives that they are interested in and inhabiting them creatively and with great social purpose often. Students become less interested in accumulating grades than they do with accumulating learning and a fuller University experience.
The kinds of concepts students produce in this context in their work and as instruments of understanding are often new, provocative and, in some senses, so much so that they don't have already existing things to be compared with and thereby graded. This propels students towards the kinds of post-disciplinary innovations that have marked all major social movements, their politics, their art and theorisations. More, it fosters a sense of a mutual learning environment produced between students, lecturers and others
Hand in hand with an adventurous and robust approach to studio writing and to an understanding of how art and design processes produce knowledge, the Credit/No Credit model is an institutional instrument that would help more boldly outline the aims and intellectual culture of ECU as a University of Art and Design nationally and internationally