Guideline for Section 55219

Districts offering DE courses/sections and sessions or beginning new ones are required to regularly report all management information system (MIS) elements to the Chancellor’s Office Management Information System Division. To fulfill this MIS

reporting requirement, districts will need to assure that data, now regularly reported within data element XFO1 on each session’s method of instruction, to reliably differentiate DE from non-DE activities. The data element XF01 Session-Instruction-

Method has been revised to better reflect the types of DE instructional methods currently taking place.

Section 55219 also requires districts to report annually all DE activity to their local governing board and respond to any CO request for data on DE. To the extent possible local reports should compare and contrast DE to traditional instructional delivery. The annual report to the local governing board should, to the extent possible, address the following questions:

Purpose

• What was the intent in offering the course by DE? How was learning enhanced

by the use of technology?

55219. Ongoing Responsibility of Districts.

Any district conducting courses under section 55316.5 shall:

(a) Maintain records and report data through the Chancellor’s Office Management Information System on the number of students and faculty participating in new courses or sections of established courses,

(b) Provide to the local governing board, no later than August 31st of each year, a report on all distance education activity,

(c) Provide other information consistent with reporting guidelines developed

by the Chancellor pursuant to section 409 of the Procedures and Standing

Orders of the Board of Governors.

Note: Authority cited: Sections 66700 and 70901, Education Code.

Reference: Sections 70901 and 70902, Education Code.