Wis. Admin. Code Real Estate Examining Board REEB 25.06 - Requirements for approval of pre-license noncredit programs and instructors

(1) Approval of programs.

(a) A school seeking initial approval from the board of pre-license educational noncredit programs or courses shall submit its application on a form provided by the department.

Note: An applicant may obtain a copy of the Application for Approval of Pre-license Noncredit Programs, Form #830, from the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services, Division of Professional Credential Processing, 1400 East Washington Avenue, P.O. Box 8935, Madison, Wisconsin 53708.

(b) The board may require a school seeking initial approval and reapproval of pre-license noncredit programs or courses to describe or furnish its organizational structure, registration policies, fee schedules, promotional materials, detailed outlines of each program or course with specific allocations of classroom hours to each topic presented as classroom education, student records system, the names and qualifications of instructors, the method of instruction, the method for evaluating instructors and a summary of evaluations conducted, and the time, date and location of each program.

(c) A school shall inform the board of any changes in the information it submitted in an application form within 10 days following the date of the change.

(d) A school may not discriminate against anyone on the basis of sex, race, color, sexual orientation as defined in s. 111.32(13m), Stats., handicap, religion, age, physical disability, or national origin in their educational programs.

(e) A school seeking the approval of pre-license noncredit programs or courses presented as distance education is not required to designate the number of hours of instruction. However, it shall describe to the board how it will do all of the following:

1. Ensure that instructors approved by the board under sub. (2) are available to the students at reasonable times and by reasonable means.

2. Ensure that the distance education programs and courses will sufficiently cover the required subjects.

3. Provide reasonable oversight to ensure that students who complete the distance education program are the enrolled students.

4. Ensure that the school's distance education program and courses will provide a reasonable opportunity for student self-evaluation of mastery.

(2)

(a) Instructors of pre-license educational noncredit programs shall be approved by the board. Instructors shall be knowledgeable in the subject which they are teaching. The board may limit its approval to specific content areas set forth in ss. REEB 25.02(2) and 25.03(3). Instructors shall possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications:

1. Be an instructor of real estate courses who is or has been engaged in the practice of teaching at an accredited institution of higher education.

2. Be a properly licensed or certified person by the board or other governmental agency who is engaged in the real estate aspects of appraising, financing, marketing, brokerage management, real property management, real estate counseling, real property law, or other related subjects and has been for at least 5 years continuously engaged in such practice.

3. Be a member of the state bar of Wisconsin who is engaged in the field of real estate-related law.

4. Be a person who, in the judgment of the board, is qualified by experience or education, or both, to supervise a course of study.

Note: An applicant may obtain a copy of the Application for Approval of Instructor, Form #831, from the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services, Division of Professional Credential Processing, 1400 East Washington Avenue, P.O. Box 8935, Madison, Wisconsin 53708.

(b) An instructor whose real estate license has been limited, suspended or revoked may not instruct in approved programs while the disciplinary action is in effect.

(c) A school shall make arrangements so that when instruction is provided by some means without the instructor physically present in the classroom and the students are unable to interact with the person doing the instructing another approved instructor will be present in the classroom. If the students are able to interact with the person doing the instructing a monitor, but not necessarily an approved instructor, shall be present.

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Wis. Admin. Code Real Estate Examining Board REEB 25.06

Cr. Register, October, 1979, No. 286, eff. 11-1-79; renum. from REB 16.06 and am. Register, February, 1983, No. 326, eff. 3-1-83; am. (1) (a) 1., r. (2) (d) to (f), Register, February, 1987, No. 374, eff. 6-1-87; r. and recr. Register, January, 1992, No. 433, eff. 2-1-92; correction in (2) (a) made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 7, Stats., Register, July, 1997, No. 499; am. (2) (a) 2., Register, July, 1998, No. 511, eff. 8-1-98; am. (1) (a) and (b), r. and recr. (1) (e), Register, August, 1999, No. 524, eff. 9-1-99; correction in (1) (a) to (c), (e) (intro.), 1., (2) (a) (intro.), 2., 4. made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 6, 7., Stats., Register November 2011 No. 671.