What is necessary to achieve “interactivity”?
The ARELLO-IDECC certification process does not accept passive learning models. The course must be designed so there is ample interactivity as described in the ARELLO-IDECC Standards. This must include proactive designs that foster interaction with the instructor as well as the content and preferably with students when appropriate. The standards encourage the use of tools to foster interactivity and these are thoroughly discussed in the Distance Education Standards Manual and Resource Guide. • If a provider develops a single 90 hour pre-license (qualifying education) course and then wants to take exact “modules or components” from it to create separate courses, will the provider have to certify each of the sub courses? Yes, each course must be certified separately. Often, the audiences are very different within pre-license and CE courses. Thus, delivery methods should usually be adjusted to accommodate these differences in the experience levels of the students. Also, two independent st
