New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 30 - EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS › Part 8 - DISTANCE LEARNING › Section 6.30.8.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. "Asynchronous
				instruction" means the course provider and the distance-learning student do not
				interact at the same time and can, but need not, utilize the
				internet.
B. "Council on technology
				in education" means the council established pursuant to the Technology for
				Education Act [22-15A-5
				NMSA 1978], which advises the department on implementing educational
				technology, promotes the collaborative development and implementation of
				educational technologies, develops and recommends a statewide plan to the
				department related to educational standards, and provides assistance to the
				department in reviewing school district technology plans to support on-site and
				distance learning.
C. "Course
				provider" means a person, institution, or organization that supplies
				educational course content for distance learning courses.
D. "Department" means the public education
				department.
E. "Distance learning"
				means the technology and educational process used to provide instruction for
				credit or grade when the course provider and the distance-learning student are
				not necessarily physically present at the same time or place. Distance learning
				does not include educational software that utilizes only on-site
				teaching.
F. "Distance learning
				course" means an educational course that is taught where the student and
				primary instructor are separated by time or space and linked by
				technology.
G. "Distance learning
				irregularities" means any circumstances within or beyond the control of a local
				distance learning site that in the opinion of the department or a local
				distance learning site raises doubts about the propriety of procedures
				followed, preparation or validity of materials, testing administration, testing
				security, online security, or teacher or student conduct.
H. "Distance learning student" means a
				qualified student as defined in
				22-8-2
				NMSA 1978 who is enrolled in one or more distance learning courses for
				credit.
I. "District coordinator"
				means the superintendent or designee who administers and monitors the distance
				learning program in a public school district or charter school.
J. "Dual credit course" means a program of
				studies that allows high school students to enroll in college-level courses
				offered by public post-secondary educational institutions that may be academic
				or career-technical in nature, but may not be remedial or developmental, and
				through which students can simultaneously earn credit toward high school
				graduation and a post-secondary degree or certificate.
K. "Enrolling district" means the school
				district or charter school in which a distance-learning student is enrolled for
				the purposes of compulsory attendance. Students shall have only one enrolling
				district for purposes of membership.
L. "HED" means the higher education
				department.
M. "Innovative digital
				education and learning-New Mexico" or IDEAL-NM means the operating program for
				the administration and management of the statewide cyber academy.
N. "Local board" means the policy-setting
				body of a school district or the governing structure of a charter school as set
				forth in the school's charter.
O.
				"Local distance learning site" means a public school district or charter school
				that offers and grants credit for distance learning courses to distance
				learning students enrolled in public school districts, charter schools or
				contracted nonpublic schools.
P.
				"Membership" means the total number of qualified students as defined in
				22-8-2
				NMSA 1978.
Q. "Online" or "web
				based" means utilizing the internet.
R. "Public school" means that part of a
				school district that is a single attendance center in which instruction is
				offered by one or more teachers and is discernible as a building or group of
				buildings generally recognized as either an elementary, middle, junior high or
				high school or any combination of those and includes charter schools.
S. "Qualified distance learning student"
				means a qualified student as defined in
				22-8-2
				NMSA 1978, who is also participating in distance learning courses for credit or
				a grade.
T. "REC" means regional
				education cooperative.
U. "Regional
				host" means an educational institution, school district or other entity
				selected by IDEAL-NM to coordinate the delivery of distance learning courses
				within a broad geographic region of the state.
V. "Site coordinator" means a licensed school
				employee with the responsibility to facilitate student completion of online
				courses, including services related to student registration, monitoring student
				progress, communicating with online providers, and ensuring that grades are
				recorded on transcripts. Site coordinators shall not include substitute
				teachers.
W. "Statewide cyber
				academy" means the collaborative program among the department, HED,
				telecommunications networks and representatives of other state agencies engaged
				in providing distance education. The statewide cyber academy operates as
				IDEAL-NM.
X. "Student" means a
				qualified student as defined in
				22-8-2
				NMSA 1978.
Y. "Synchronous
				instruction" means the instructor and students interact at the same time, even
				though they might not be in the same physical location. Synchronous instruction
				includes:
(1) web-based instruction,
				including web conferencing, that requires real time interaction between
				instructor and student;
(2) two way
				interactive video;
(3) traditional
				face-to-face classroom instruction; and
(4) telephone based instruction.