Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Each board of education or chartered
nonpublic school that operates a school or a classroom as a blended learning
environment shall adopt policies and procedures that address the following:
(1) Means of personalization of student
centered learning models to meet the needs of each student.
(2) The evaluation and review of the quality
of online curriculum delivered to students.
(3) Assessment of each participating
student's progress through the curriculum. Students shall be permitted to
advance through each level of the curriculum based on demonstrated
competency/mastery of the material.
(4) The assignment of a sufficient number of
teachers to ensure a student has an appropriate level of interaction to meet
the student's personal learning goals. Each participating student shall be
assigned to at least one teacher of record. A school or classroom that
implements blended learning cannot be required to have more than one teacher
for every one hundred twenty-five students.
(5) The method by which each participating
student will have access to the digital learning tools necessary to access the
online or digital content.
(6) The
means by which each school shall use a filtering device or install filtering
software that protects against internet access to materials that are obscene or
harmful to juveniles on each computer provided to or made available to students
for instructional use. The school shall provide such device or software at no
cost to any student who uses a device obtained from a source other than the
school.
(7) The means by which the
school will ensure that teachers have appropriate training in the pedagogy of
the effective delivery of online or digital instruction.
(B)
Section
3302.41
of the Revised Code requires an annual instructional calendar of not less than
nine hundred ten hours.
(C)
Students engaged in blended learning shall have the ability to earn credits by
demonstrating mastery of knowledge or skills through competency-based learning
models. Students shall advance from grade to grade based upon credits earned.
Credit shall not be based on a minimum number of days or hours in a classroom
or on a digital learning device.
(D) With respect to the operation of a school
or classroom with a blended learning environment, the operating standards in
this chapter apply only to the extent that those obligations do not conflict
with the provisions in this rule.
