"Accredited nonpublic school" means a
nonpublic school accredited pursuant to Iowa Code section
256.11.
"Appropriately licensed and endorsed" or
"appropriately licensed" 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.
"Area education agency" or
"AEA" refers to a political subdivision organized pursuant to
Iowa Code chapter 273.
"Board of educational examiners" or
"BOEE" refers to the body with the statutory responsibility to
license Iowa educators.
"Delivered primarily over the Internet"
means more than 50 percent of the course content or instruction or both is
delivered using the Internet.
"Department" means the department of
education.
"Director" means the director of the
department of education.
"Exclusive instruction" means without the
use of any other form of instructional delivery.
"Online learning" and "online
coursework" mean educational instruction and content that are
delivered primarily over the Internet. "Online learning" and "online
coursework" do not include print-based correspondence education, broadcast
television or radio, videocassettes, or stand-alone educational software
programs that do not have a significant Internet-based instructional
component.
"Online learning platform" means a set of
services by which students access course content and by which students and
teachers connect and communicate.
"Online school" refers to a district or
nonpublic school providing educational instruction and course content delivered
primarily over the Internet for a group of students for whom this method of
delivery is the primary method of education. "Online school" also refers to a
school for which a district accepts open enrollment for the express purpose of
attendance at the online school and that has received permission from the
department to operate.
"Participating school district or accredited
nonpublic school" means a school district or accredited nonpublic
school that is providing online learning or online coursework.
"Private provider" means, for purposes of
this chapter, any public or private entity that is not a school district, an
accredited nonpublic school, or an AEA.
"School district" means a political
subdivision organized pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 274.
"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.
Notes
Iowa Admin. Code r.
281-15.1
ARC 0522C, lAB 12/12/12,
effective 1/16/2013
Amended by
IAB
June 30, 2021/Volume XLIII, Number 27, effective
8/4/2021
Adopted by
IAB
April 17, 2024/Volume XLVI, Number 21, effective
5/22/2024
