N.M. Admin. Code § 16.61.15.11

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 19, October 8, 2024

Section 16.61.15.11 - APPROVAL OF COURSES

A. Any pre-licensing or continuing education course must have been approved by the commission before the course being offered for credit. Courses must incorporate New Mexico law and rules when relevant. A course application form must be completed and submitted to the commission before consideration of a course for approval by the committee.

(1) Before course approval, the instructor teaching the course shall make a presentation before the committee according to presentation criteria established by the committee.

(2) The committee shall assign the number of credit hours to each course and determine whether the course is in the core elective, elective, or ethics categories.

(3) Commission approved pre-licensing courses may count for up to ten credit hours toward continuing education requirements for license renewal.

B. The committee may waive a course presentation appearance by a nationally recognized professional real estate organization that provides professional designations if the organization can document to the committee's satisfaction that the course instructor received training in the course subject matter in addition to attending a train the trainer class.

C. The commission must approve any continuing education course offered for one-time credit before the course being offered.

(1) A commission approved application form for one-time credit approval must be completed and submitted to the committee before consideration of the course for credit. Applications must contain all the necessary supporting materials regarding the instructors and the venue and date(s) the course will be offered.

(2) Approved sponsors are limited to 10 course submittals for one-time credit during each calendar year.

(3) The sponsor, or its representative, requesting one-time course credit, shall make a presentation before the committee according to presentation criteria established by the committee.

D. All courses shall conform to the generally accepted principles of education as prescribed by the real estate educators association (REEA) and shall comply with commission approved course content requirements. The minimum length of a course shall be one hour.

E. The commission will maintain a list of courses that have been approved for credit.

F. If the course represents an update to a previously approved course, and new material becomes available, the instructor shall be responsible for updating the course and presenting the most current information. Significant changes to course outlines should be provided by the instructor to the commission's education administrator as they occur. If a course outline has not been updated within the last three years the committee may, at its discretion, recommend to the commission that the course be removed from the list of approved courses.

G. Distance education: For purposes of this part, distance learning is approved course activity that takes place outside of the traditional classroom setting and in which non-traditional instructional media are used because the teacher and student are separated by distance or time. Distance education sponsors seeking continuing education credit for their courses will be required to designate a New Mexico approved instructor to make a presentation to the committee and shall submit for committee review and approval:

(1) course syllabus which clearly states the course objectives and the specific learning objectives for desired student competencies;

(2) instructions for accessing, using and testing the online materials for committee auditing purposes including everything necessary for evaluating course content materials, duration, accuracy and timeliness;

(3) reference materials appropriate to the course;

(4) when a series of courses is offered in a curriculum, evidence of sequential development and logical progression;

(5) description of the method, such as examination and quizzes, by which student progress and mastery of the subject matter are measured, and for determining what is required for a student to successfully complete the course;

(6) description of the method by which student identity is verified, such as user name and password;

(7) the names, telephone numbers and email addresses of individuals, web-sites or other resources that students can contact for technical assistance;

(8) the name and contact information of the New Mexico instructor approved to teach the course who will be available to answer subject matter questions during regularly posted hours;

(9) a description of the methodology used by the sponsor in determining the classroom hour equivalency of each distance education course.

H. Live distance education is distance education in which the teacher and student are separated by distance, but not time. In addition to the requirements of subsection G, the following regulations will apply to live distance education. Live distance education sponsors and instructors seeking approval to offer continuing education credit will be required to designate a New Mexico approved instructor to make a presentation to the committee and shall submit for submit for committee approval the following:

(1) The technology a sponsor intends to use to provide live distance education will be in place, at the place of instruction and at student location(s), and demonstrated to the committee in a situation as near to the actual proposed class setting as possible.

(2) The sponsor or instructor will provide technical support sufficient to rectify minor technical problems. If there are interruptions that exceed the regulatory mandate of 50 minutes of instruction per hour, no credits will be issued to students.

(3) At live distance education locations where there is a proctor provided by the sponsor or the instructor, a final examination is not required. At locations where there is no proctor, a final examination is required.

(4) Live distance education core course instruction will be proctored, will have a maximum of 40 students total, and a minimum of five students at each location, unless there is a one teacher to one student instruction.

N.M. Admin. Code § 16.61.15.11

16.61.15.11 NMAC - Rp, 16.61.15.11 NMAC, 1-1-2012, Amended by New Mexico Register, Volume XXVII, Issue 22, November 30, 2016, eff. 1/1/2017, Amended by New Mexico Register, Volume XXIX, Issue 22, November 27, 2018, eff. 1/1/2019, Amended by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, December 15, 2020, eff. 1/3/2021