DISTANCE EDUCATION POLICY

OUR INSTITUTION establishes the distance education policy to guarantee the maintenance and control of the new education programs that have been approved by the Department of Education; under the condition of having included only the distance education component to the previously approved programs but maintaining the same duration of the program or the content of the curriculum. This change will allow us to offer our students permanently the possibility of receiving their study program with the flexibility and benefits that distance education highlights.

This component has been specifically destined to the teaching of the theory through a well-structured planning that ensures the control of the parameters that allowed to receive the authorization for the change.

 

Development of practical evaluations on campus or virtual under the supervision of the professor.

This policy must always be unison with the objective and institutional philosophy which intends that the graduate at the end of their study program, in addition to having the necessary knowledge to obtain a license and be able to practice the profession of their choice, will have developed the skills professional and personal, essential for their professional performance. The following elements define the procedure used by the institution and are strictly followed in accordance with the provisions of state and federal regulations and Department of Education,

• The interaction with the instructor with the students will be validated through the ZOOM software programs. This platform provides the ability to record in clock hours the duration of the teacher's interaction with the student. This information will be processed by the registrar's office and certified by the teacher. These hours will be taken into consideration to establish the time attended and time absent for each student as part of the information necessary for the calculation of satisfactory progress. In the same way, the attendance of students to their classes on campus will be considered for the fulfillment of their practices. 

• The institution verifies the identification of each student participating in distance education, assigning him an identification code at the time of the enrollment process, where the prospective student must present, within the admission requirements, an identification that demonstrates her identity. The identification code will be included in the study contract and in the database of the system used by the institution. It will be the student’s responsibility to register at the beginning of each section if the distance educational classes on the ZOOM platform with assigned identification number. Only then will the student be able to recognize her attendance at online classes. The system will recognize as time attended from when you connect to the section until you disconnect with a maximum time stipulated for the duration of the class.

• The time in which the student, even if he or she is connected, but does not respond to the teacher or show on camera, the teacher will then check it, deduct the time as assisted.

• The student will not be able to connect to another section without the teacher's authorization.

• The teacher will have the authority to disconnect any student who does not maintain acceptable discipline.

• It will be mandatory that all students keep their camera and microphone on and participate in classes as required by the teacher.

• The attendance policy applied to distance learning will be the same as that used for face-to-face education at the institution. This policy is published in the catalog.

• All assessments that will be used to calculate a student's GPA must be taken while the student is physically on campus.

• All transcripts or other documents (official or unofficial) that list the academic achievements received must identify the distance education component.

• Prior to enrollment, students must sign a liability waiver specifying that, even if they receive their diploma for academic achievement through distance education, the license applied for is Florida and may not guarantee licensure in other states. A signed and dated copy of this release must be in the student's file.

• This policy must be part of the student's enrollment agreement and it must be signed on each page.

• The institution reserves the right to make changes in class schedules when required by a closure order in the event of a pandemic and / or situation that is beyond our reach and offer a schedule of classes only for distance learning. After the opening, the face-to-face teaching time will be compensated with a schedule that allows a return to normality education.

 

This addendum will be delivered together with the new catalog of the institution in which you will find the Handbooks or sketch of each study program and all the policies as they are, attendance, reimbursement, satisfactory progress and liability release. The student must sign the document on the date it was delivered. The original of this document signed by the student and a representative of the institution will be filed together with the student's original contract.

 

Certification of having received orientation from the new distance education program and agreeing with everything established, including that all transcripts, diploma or other documents (official or unofficial) that list the academic achievements received will be identified with the component of education to distance.

Liability release

OUR INSTITUTION establishes, through a release of responsibility, compliance with the regulations of the accreditation agency, which requires that all students who begin their classes through the Distance Education method. They should receive the following information.

 

"Students who achieve academic achievement through distance education while still receiving their diploma may not be accepted for reciprocity or eligible for licensure in other states."

The signature of the student and the guardian in case of being a minor is required as evidence of having received the information included in the release of responsibility.