The Academic Senate Committee on eLearning met on April 15, 2021 at 3:00PM via Zoom (Online)
Committee Members in Attendance:
In Attendance: Randelle Sasa (2022), Susan Lago (2022), Punita Bhansali (2023), Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols (2021), Eugene Desepoli III (2021), Merlinda Drini Prelvukaj (2023), Lakersha Smith (2021), Zhou Zhou (2022), Zivah Perel Katz (Steering Committee Designee)
Not present: Denis Bejar (IT Academic Applications Director), Sandra Palmer (President's Designee)
Business:
The meeting was called to order at
3:02 PM
I. Minutes of March 11, 2021 meeting – approved by unanimous vote.
II. Old Business
- Marketing of online courses: Randelle said that David Moretti said the HTML template would not be ready for the next newsletter. Call for articles/ contributions to the newsletter.
- Virtual E-Learning Sessions: CETL/ ACD/ eLearning Faculty Development Series is ongoing. Because of collaboration between CETL, the eLearning Committee, and the ADC we now have a greater number of Brown Bag workshops.
- Policies and Standards for eLearning at QCC: We are awaiting for survey results from ADC. We discussed the faculty survey of the evaluation tool.
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III. Other Business:
- Randelle attended the tech fee meeting. We have a positive balance because they haven’t replaced any computers due to the pandemic. That situation will change when we come back to campus in the Fall. They are installing new podia. Susan said that she tested microphones and cameras with OET. Svjetlana asked about camaraderie in the classroom. Susan said it will likely be a period of transition.
- Tasks from the Steering Committee: Randelle said that committee chairs have to review guidelines. There is a Google form from the Assessment Committee. Randelle used the Google form to ask the committee about fulfilling charges. Zivah said that the form is not supposed to be used to “grade” each committee, but instead to be a catalyst for discussion. She said Middle States said that the Senate (?) should be assessing governance. Randelle said he would send out a link of the form to the committee. Randelle said that the small change we made to the electronic student survey was a small change, but to big effect. Kersha said that the newsletter is an important way to give students voice, especially during pandemic time. Svjetlana said that the pandemic highlighted the necessity for effective elearning literacy. She said more faculty should be involved in it going forward. Randelle said we should revisit the charges before the end of his term. He read the charges to the group to ask if they were met or not met. Zivah said that this committee should be part of the conversation about the pedagogy of PNT and FNT courses going forward. Randelle said that we should have our meeting posted on the website so that students can attend our meetings. Zivah said that each committee is supposed to have a student designee from student government. Zivah said we should post the time of our meeting on the website so that students can come. She said that Ian Beckford said there are no plans for assessment of PNT and FNT courses. She said we should check in next year to see if plans have changed.
- Reminder: Committee election for Chair/ Secretary position in the next meeting. Zivah said that the new slate of committee members were approved at the last Senate meeting and we should add our new members to the email list to invite them to the meeting in May to vote.
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AdjournmentMeeting was adjourned at 3.48 by Randelle Sasa. The next general meeting will be May 13, 2021, 3PM via Zoom.
Respectfully submitted,
Susan Lago
Committee on eLearning, Secretary
Minutes typed on April 15, 2021
