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.
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