SECTION 66.1401. Definitions

For purposes of this subchapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings.

(1) Classroom set--This term refers to the components of an instructional material, including, but not limited to, the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills-bearing components sufficient for use by a teacher and 25 students.

(2) Inclusion--This term means the presentation or display of instructional materials, open education resources (OERs), and related information in the instructional materials portal or on other websites where information is publicly available to which the instructional materials portal links.

(3) Instructional materials--This term has the meaning assigned by Texas Education Code (TEC), §31.002(1), and §66.27(a) of this title (relating to Proclamation, Public Notice, and Schedule for Adopting Instructional Materials).

(4) Open education resource--This term has the meaning assigned by TEC, §31.002(1-a) and §31.083.

(5) Open education resource submission form--This term refers to a document generated and approved by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) on which an OER licensor, a publisher, or TEA records information required for submission of OERs to the repository.

(6) Open education resource submission process--This term refers to the procedures followed by an OER licensor, a publisher, or TEA when submitting OERs to the OER repository in the instructional materials portal.

(7) OER licensor--This term means the individual or entity that offers an OER under the terms of an intellectual property license as specified in TEC, §31.083. Publishers and TEA may be OER licensors.

(8) Professional development services--This term means the training and instruction provided by a publisher or its designee or an OER licensor for the purpose of teaching teachers and other educators how to use the publisher's or OER licensor's instructional materials.

(9) Publisher--This term means the developer or distributor of instructional materials and has the meaning assigned by TEC, §31.002(2).

(10) Evaluation of quality--This term refers to the independent analysis of instructional materials based on their quality. This includes the option to assign a summative quality rating to the materials for publication in the instructional materials portal.

(11) Evaluation of quality submission form--This term refers to a document generated and approved by TEA in which publishers record information required for submission of instructional materials for an evaluation of quality (EoQ).

(12) Evaluation of quality submission process--This term refers to the procedures followed by publishers when submitting instructional materials for an EoQ.

Source Note: The provisions of this §66.1401 adopted to be effective September 10, 2019, 44 TexReg 4857