OAR 863-020-0060: Continuing Education Instructor Form

(1) As provided in OAR 863-020-0050, a continuing education provider must ensure that the instructor who teaches a continuing education course offered for credit meets the requirements contained in ORS 696.186. The Agency does not certify instructors. (2) A continuing education provider must ensure that the instructor completes and signs a form containing the following information: (a) The instructor’s name, address, and phone number; (b) The continuing education provider name and provider number; (c) A description of the instructor’s qualifications in sufficient detail that would enable the reader to know how the instructor has met those qualifications; and (d) An attestation signed and dated by the instructor, identifying the instructor’s qualifications under section (4) of this rule and affirming that the instructor: (A) Has not had a professional or occupational license related to the topic of the course revoked for disciplinary reasons; (B) Has not had a professional or occupational license related to the topic of the course that is currently suspended for disciplinary reasons; and (C) Has not been determined by a state court, an administrative law judge, or a final agency order to have violated any statute, rule, regulation, or order pertaining to real estate activity in this or any other state in the preceding five years. (3) The instructor must indicate on the form which of the following qualifications applies to the instructor: (a) A bachelor’s degree and two years of experience working in a field related to the course topic; (b) Six years of experience working in a field related to the topic of the course; (c) A total of six years of any combination of college-level coursework and experience working in a field related to the topic of the course: (d) A designation by a professional real estate organization, as defined in section (4) of this rule, and two years of college-level coursework; (e) A designation as a Distinguished Real Estate Instructor by the Real Estate Educators’ Association; or (f) Certification or approval in good standing as a real estate instructor for the same or a similar course topic in any other state or jurisdiction. (4) “Professional real estate organization,” as used in section (4) of this rule, means a group of individuals with a formal membership whose membership includes real estate licensees or licensed escrow agents.