Section 281.15.2. Definitions.

“Appropriately licensed and endorsed” means possession of current and valid licensure by the Iowa board of educational examiners to practice at a prescribed educational level in a specified content area.

“Class size” refers to the total group taught during a time period by a teacher or teaching team with students at one or more sites.

“Delivered primarily over the Internet” means more than 50 percent of the course content or instruction or both is delivered using the global computer network of the World Wide Web or Internet.

“Department” means the department of education.

“Exclusive instruction” means without the use of any other form of instructional delivery.

“Iowa Learning Online”  or “ILO”  means the department’s digital learning initiative to provide online courses to students enrolled or dually enrolled in participating school districts and accredited nonpublic schools. ILO is more specifically explained in Division III herein.

“Online learning”  or “online coursework”  means educational instruction and content delivered primarily over the Internet. “Online learning” or “online coursework” does not include print-based correspondence curricula, broadcast television or radio, videocassettes, or stand-alone educational software programs that lack a significant Internet-based instructional component.

“Participating school district or accredited nonpublic school” means a school district or accredited nonpublic school that has registered a student in an ILO course and has agreed to provide the student with access, during the school day, to a computer that has Internet connectivity through a direct connection as well as access to a telephone or an ICN classroom and transportation to periodic laboratory components, if needed or required. The district has also agreed to provide a staff member to serve as a site coordinator and contact for the ILO teacher, to monitor progress, and to serve as the student’s advocate by providing academic coaching and technical support. Further, the district has agreed to award a grade and credit on the student’s district-level transcript, based on the end-of-course evaluation by the ILO teacher.

“Telecommunications” means narrowcast communications through systems that are directed toward a narrowly defined audience and includes interactive live communications. “Telecommunications” does not include online learning.

[ARC 0522C, IAB 12/12/12, effective 1/16/13]