Florida Administrative Code › 69 - DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES › 69B - Division of Insurance Agent and Agency Services › Chapter 69B-227 - PRELICENSING EDUCATION › Section 69B-227.130 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
For purposes of this rule chapter, the following definitions
				  shall apply.
(1) "Accredited
				institution of higher learning" or "college" means a university, a college, a
				community college, a technical college, or extension division thereof which is
				accredited by an accrediting agency.
(2) "Accrediting agency" means the Council
				for Higher Education Accreditation or a national or regional accrediting agency
				recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
(3) "Approved" means the Department has
				determined the provider course, school official, or instructor has met the
				criteria set forth in Rules
				 69B-227.140 through
				 69B-227.170, F.A.C.
(4) "Audit" means Department activity to
				monitor or evaluate classroom, webcast, interactive online, and correspondence
				courses, examination sites, administrative offices and provider
				records.
(5) "Blended course" means
				a course that consists of a combination of the classroom, self-study
				correspondence or self-study online study methods.
(6) "Classroom course" means a course that is
				designed to be presented to a group of students by a live instructor using
				lecture, video, webcast, virtual or other audio-video presentation.
(7) "Correspondence course" means a
				self-study course designed to be presented to students through physical
				documents or other media.
(8)
				"Course" and "Pre-licensing course" means an educational program or training
				program that is designed to meet the education requirement for
				licensure.
(9) "Course authority"
				means a line of business with a corresponding license type.
(10) "Credit hour" means a minimum of 50
				minutes of classroom instruction, or for correspondence courses, 50 minutes of
				time that is determined by the Department to be necessary to study text
				material in order to successfully complete the monitored final examination or
				online internal testing.
(11)
				"Curriculum" means an educational program, a group of related courses of study,
				or program of studies offered by an institution, school, college or university,
				which includes course materials, examinations, tests, outlines, and student
				handouts for purposes of obtaining a designation as identified in Section
				 626.221(2),
				F.S.
(12) "Day" means a calendar
				day inclusive of weekends and holidays.
(13) "Education database" means the
				Department's online system for activity relating to approval of providers,
				courses, course offerings, instructors, and the filing of rosters and other
				information relating to pre-licensing courses required by rule or statute to be
				filed with the Department. The Education Database is accessed at
http://www.myfloridacfo.com/division/agents
.
(14) "In-house" means courses or services
				available only to employees of an entity or for members of an
				association.
(15) "Incomplete
				application" means an application which contains errors, omissions, or which
				requires additional or clarifying information or documentation, or is not
				submitted in accordance with the submission procedures in Rule
				 69B-227.290, F.A.C., as required
				by Rule  69B-227.140,
				 69B-227.150,
				 69B-227.160,  69B-227.170 or
				 69B-227.180, F.A.C.
(16) "Independent program of study" means a
				program of study not taught by an institution of higher learning.
(17) "Instructor" means an individual
				approved by the Department who teaches an approved course or training program.
				This term includes supervising instructors for bail bond agent
				courses.
(18) "Insurance
				representative" means an agent, adjuster, customer representative or service
				representative.
(19) "Live" means
				broadcast while actually being performed; not taped, filmed or
				recorded.
(20) "Online course"
				means a self-study course delivered via the internet or other computer
				network.
(21) "Present" means to
				appear in person, or by live connection through electronic means.
(22) "Provider" means any individual,
				partnership, organization, association, corporation or other entity approved by
				the Department to conduct pre-licensing courses or mediation
				training.
(23) "Provider records"
				means any documents relating to course approval, course offerings, attendance,
				course completions or credits, course offering advertisements, and any other
				records required to be kept according to the Florida Insurance Code, and any
				rule in this chapter or order of the Department.
(24) "Public," when used in the context of a
				course, means a course which is available to any person, in contrast to an
				"in-house" course.
(25) "School
				official" means an individual designated by a provider and approved by the
				Department who is responsible for the acts of the provider.
(26) "Self-study" is a term used to describe
				correspondence and online courses.
(27) "Virtual classroom course" means a type
				of classroom course in which instruction is provided in an interactive learning
				environment created through technology in which students are separated from
				their teachers by time or space, or both.
(28) "Webcast classroom course" means a type
				of classroom course delivered through interaction with a live instructor via
				the internet.
Rulemaking Authority
					 624.308(1),
					 626.2817 FS. Law Implemented
					 624.307(1),
					 626.2817,
					 626.732(1)(a),
					 626.7351,
					 626.7851,
					 626.8311,
					 626.8417,
					 626.927,
					 627.7015,
					 627.7074,
					 627.745,
					 648.34,
					 648.386
					 FS.
New 4-11-94, Formerly 4-211.130,
					  69B-211.130, Amended 9-1-14,
					 3-31-16.