Committee on eLearning Meeting Minutes for December 12, 2019

The Academic Senate Committee on eLearning met on December 12, 2019 at 3:10PM in Science 312

Committee Members in Attendance:

In Attendance: Zeynep Akcay (2020), Peter Novick (2020), , Eugene Desepoli (2021), Randelle Sasa (2022), Zivah Katz (2022) and Shiang-Kwei Wang (President’s designee).

Not present: Nina Sarkar (2020), Joseph Goldenberg (2021), Lakersha Smith (2021), Zhou Zhou (2022) and Susan Lago (Steering Committee Designee).

Business:

The meeting was called to order at 3:10PM

Minutes of November 14^th, 2019 – approved by unanimous vote.

• Committee member updates
  • Joseph Goldenberg will be retiring and Nina will be resigning due to a teaching conflict we will hopefully have replacement members
  • Zivah and Susan have swapped positions. Zivah is on the Steering Committee and is now our Steering Committee Designee and Susan has become an official member.
• Updates from President’s Designee Shiang-Kwei Wang
  • The College is currently working on a Title 5 Grant through the Department of Education.  One of the 3 aims of the grant will be to strengthen online education at QCC. Marketing and Office of Institutional Research will be sending a survey to QCC students to gather data on preferred learning formats.  This information will be published in our Spring newsletter.
  • Additional activities are also in the development/discussion phase.
• Tech Fee Committee meeting for Spring 2019 will be March 17^th at 3:00. Randelle has agreed to attend for our committee.

Old business

• Subcommittee reports/plans/changes/additions:

Marketing of online courses (Eugene Desepoli & Peter Novick)

• (Committee newsletter; design and implement a marketing campaign at QCC for higher recognition of online courses)
  • Zeynep noticed that the link to the guidelines and the new e-Learning page were not included in the newsletter
  • Eugene will get in touch with Dave Moretti about a webpage template for the newsletter going forward.
  • We need to think about what to add to the Spring newsletter.
    • Results from student survey
    • Another faculty interview (Zeynep recommended Donna Boccio)

Brown bag lunches for online faculty (Nina & Susan)

• (coordinate, promote, and run informal but informative meetings for QCC faculty who are interested in online education)
  • Our professional development event was a success and well attended with about 12 faculty. As Nina resigned from the committee due to a teaching conflict, we will ask if she is still interested in presenting “educreations”. Someone recommended contacting Nathalia in the math department and Zivah said she would ask around to see if we could find someone else to present.

Policies and Standards for eLearning at QCC (Denis, Zeynep, and Peter)

• (work with CETL/OET to devise standards/policies for eLearning at QCC to be formally adopted by the Senate)
  • Zeynep has emailed the chairs of the departments a copy of the e-Learning guidelines. Next semester we will revisit the guidelines for edits/updates.  
• New business
• Assessment of online courses (Zivah)
  • Zivah reported that she was in contact with Ian Beckford and there were no plans to separately assess online courses.
• Student Evaluation Forms for E-Learning
  • A discussion on the evaluations of both peers and students ensued. Shiang-Kwei mentioned how changing student evaluations is an entire process. Making them online is a possibility, but Peter said that Queens College tried it and it the student participation was underwhelming. Maybe students will need to evaluate the professor in order to receive their final grade online?
  • Denis has sent out peer evaluation forms from Hostos CC. As a committee, we should look online for student evaluation forms of online courses from other colleges so we can compile our own QCC form.
• Next meeting is scheduled for 3:00pm on February 13^th in CETL Office (L313).
• Additional Meetings for the Spring semester: March 12^th, April 23^rd and May 14^th.
• Meeting was adjourned at 3:45 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Peter A. Novick, Ph.D.
Committee on eLearning, Secretary

Minutes typed on December 16th 2019