Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY › Chapter 66 - STATE ADOPTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS › Subchapter DD - INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS PORTAL › Section 66.1401 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
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.