79-1248 Educational Service Unit Coordinating Council; powers and duties. - Nebraska Statutes

79-1248. Educational ServiceUnit Coordinating Council; powers and duties.Thepowers and duties of the Educational Service Unit Coordinating Council include,but are not limited to:(1) Providing public access to lists of qualified distanceeducation courses;(2) Collecting and providing school schedules for participatingeducational entities;(3) Facilitation of scheduling for qualified distance educationcourses;(4) Brokering of qualified distance education courses tobe purchased by educational entities;(5) Assessment of distance education needs and evaluationof distance education services;(6) Compliance with technical standards as set forth by theNebraska Information Technology Commission and academic standards as set forthby the State Department of Education related to distance education;(7) Establishment of a system for scheduling courses brokered by the council andfor choosing receiving educational entities when the demand for a course exceedsthe capacity as determined by either the technology available or the courseprovider;(8) Administrationof learning management systems, either through the staff of the councilor by delegation to an appropriate educational entity, with the funding for such systems providedby participating educational entities; and(9) Coordination with educationalservice units and postsecondary educational institutions to provide assistancefor instructional design for both two-way interactive video distance educationcourses and the offering of graduate credit courses in distance education. SourceLaws 2006, LB 1208, § 20; R.S.Supp.,2006, § 79-1334; Laws 2007, LB603, § 19; Laws 2010, LB1071, § 31.Operative Date: April 15, 2010