For someone teaching in a rural area, I find this to be very improtant.
The course makes maximum appropriate use of current online tools outside of the LMS (including email, web 2.0, chat, and synchronous/videoconferencing) to enhance learning
Maybe I'm to much of a worrier, but I have concerns about students in at the K-12 level communicating with each other using methods that are not monitored by the teacher such as email, etc...