Rule 539-2-.16 - Distance Education Courses(1) Distance education is a course(s) in which instruction does not take place in a traditional classroom setting but rather through other media in which teacher and student are separated by distance and sometimes by time.(2) The Board approves distance education courses: (a) that meet all of the requirements of this chapter, or(b) for which the applicant provides satisfactory documentation that (1) the International Distance Education Certification Center (IDECC) has certified the course as meeting its distance education standards for course design and delivery mechanism and (2) the course content meets the content requirements of this Chapter. Any Board approval based on such an IDECC certification will cease immediately upon notice from IDECC that certification of the course has been discontinued for any reason.(3) In distance education courses, a classroom hour is defined as fifty minutes of instruction out of each sixty minute segment.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 539-2-.16
O.C.G.A. Secs. 43-39A-8, 43-39A-9, 43-39A-11, 43-39A-13, 43-39A-18, 43-39A-22.
Original Rule entitled "Distance Education Courses" adopted. F. Jan. 25, 2002; eff. Feb. 14, 2002.