Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 200 - Board of Education › Chapter 20 - Council on Elementary and Secondary Education › Subchapter 10 - Academic Standards, Programs and Operations › Part 5 - Virtual Learning in Rhode Island (200-RICR-20-10-5) › Section 200-RICR-20-10-5.1 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. As used in this Part, the following words
				  and terms have the following meaning, unless the context indicates another or
				  different meaning or intent:
1. Acceptable Use
				  Policy (AUP) means a policy that outlines the responsibilities of students,
				  teachers, staff and others as they use the computers, software applications,
				  and Internet when using the school or district computers or internet
				  connections. AUPs also outline the consequences for failure to adhere to this
				  policy.
2. Asynchronous Learning
				  means communication exchanges that occur in elapsed time between two or more
				  people. Examples are email, online discussion forums, message boards, blogs,
				  podcasts, wikis, etc.
3. Blended
				  Learning means learning opportunities in which a student learns, at least in
				  part, at a supervised brick and mortar location away from home and, at least in
				  part, through online delivery with some element of student control over time,
				  place, path, and/or pace.
4. Brick
				  and mortar site means the physical location where teachers and students are
				  interacting and the location for some of the computers that students are using
				  to connect to the Internet and online sources.
5. Commissioner means the Rhode Island
				  commissioner of elementary and secondary education.
6. Common Core Standards means standards
				  adopted by a majority of states, including Rhode Island, that are robust and
				  relevant to the real world, reflect the knowledge and skills that young people
				  need for success in college and careers, and provide a consistent, clear
				  understanding of what students are expected to learn.
7. Course means a connected series of lessons
				  and learning experiences that:
a. Establish
				  expectations defined by recognized standards;
b. Provide students with opportunities to
				  learn and practice skills, and
c.
				  Include assessments of student knowledge and skills adequate to determine
				  proficiency at the level of academic rigor required by relevant content
				  standards.
8. Dual
				  Enrollment means the concurrent earning of college credits while enrolled in
				  high school.
9. High-speed
				  broadband Internet access means infrastructure that provides reliable
				  connections to the Internet which allows transfer of large quantities of
				  complex digital content at sufficient speeds to ensure fast and reliable
				  delivery of data and content.
10.
				  Individual Learning Plans (ILP) means a planning and monitoring tool that
				  customizes and directs students' goals and development in three domains:
				  academic, career, and personal/social.
11. Online (or distance) learning means
				  education in which instruction and content are delivered primarily over the
				  Internet.
12. Online courses means
				  a course in which more than half of the content is delivered by a teacher from
				  a different location than that of the student.
13. Online school program means programming
				  delivered by a school district or cooperative of school districts, and provides
				  an online, comprehensive and sequential program of courses or grade-level
				  coursework and instruction in which more than half of the program is delivered
				  online and more than half of the instruction is delivered online by a teacher
				  from a different location than that of the student.
14. Open enrollment means opportunities for
				  students to enroll in online content and programming outside of those online
				  opportunities provided by the district of residence.
15. Synchronous learning means online
				  learning in which the participants interact at the same time and in the same
				  space.
16. Virtual learning means
				  learning opportunities that make use of technology to enhance the teaching and
				  learning experience.