Committee on eLearning Meeting Minutes for November 11, 2021

The Academic Senate Committee on eLearning met on Nov 11, 2021 at 3:11 PM via Zoom (Online)

Committee Members in Attendance:

In Attendance: 

Randelle Sasa (2022), Susan Lago (2022), Punita Bhansali (2023), Merlinda Drini Prelvukaj (2023), Zhou Zhou (2022), Tony Monahan (2024), Fei Ye (2024), Humberto Morales (2024)

Not Present: 

Celia Sporer (2023)

Business:

The meeting was called to order at 3:11 PM

1. Approve previous meeting minutes

• October 14 2021 meeting minute was approved by unanimous vote.

2. eLearning Committee News Letter

1. Suggestions about the interview candidates and topics for the December eLearning Committee Newsletter.

• Randelle’s suggestion: Newspaper can do interviews with students. Topics: How well do students adapt to mixed instruction methods. Interview should focus on the modes of instructions that suit eLearning such as hybrid or fully on-line modes. Some QCC students started their college lives in a 100% in-person mode and then transitioned to on-line mode. Now they are about to graduate remotely. There are other students who have been taking on-line classes since day one. The comparison would be meaningful and interesting. 

• Susan’s suggestion: A interview with QCC IT academic technology director Mark Charoputfka. Topics: Due to the quick shift of the teaching modality during pandemic, now courses could be labeled with FNET, PNET, synchronous, asynchronous, hybrid and the new HyFlex forms. There are confusions within faculties about all these terms. What are their exact definitions? What’s the difference between them? How to comply with the requirements of each instruction method? An interview with the academic technology director could clarify some confusions by answering these questions.

2. Punita will reach out to Kevin Kolack to see if he agrees to be interviewed.

3. Punita will share Google doc so eLearning committee members could draft the interview questions together.

3. Fall 2021 and Spring 2002 Brown Bags

1. Fei Ye will write a short abstract about his talk of Markdown. Fei Ye also shared his webpages with committee members during the meeting to show what Markdown can do to format text documents as a lightweight markup language.

2. Committee members felt that the HyFlex I Panel discussion could be a very helpful brown bag session.

4. Request from Denis Bejar for QM Review for MA 114

• No available committee members are QM certified.

• Susan will find out when will the next QM training be held and notify the committee members who are interested in getting certified in QM teaching.

 

5. HyFlex Training and Guidelines

• All committee member agreed that faculties need training to learn the new technologies so they can deliver HyFlex lecture successfully. It could be very challenging for both in-person and on-line students to get good quality learning experience in class.

6. Revision of the Student Evaluation Form

• The revision of the Student Evaluation Form of the Faculty was approved by Faculty Senate on October 20, 2021. Thank you, all eLearning committee members.

7. Adjournment

Meeting was adjourned at 3:53 PM. Next meeting will be December 09 2021, 3:10 PM via Zoom.

Respectfully submitted,

Zhou Zhou
Committee on eLearning, Secretary

Minutes typed on Nov 11, 2021