Committee on eLearning Meeting Minutes for October 14, 2021

The Academic Senate Committee on eLearning met on Oct 14, 2021 at 3:00 PM via Zoom (Online)

Committee Members in Attendance:

In Attendance: 

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

 

Not Present: 

Punita Bhansali (2023)

Liaisons in Attendance:

Zivah Perel Katz (Steering Committee Designee), Sandra Palmer (President's Designee), Rezan Akpinar (Academic Senate Committee)

Business:

The meeting was called to order at 3:05 PM

1. Approve previous meeting minutes

• September 09 2021 meeting minute was approved by unanimous vote.

2. eLearning Committee News Letter

 1. Dave Moretti’s Cascade training video is now available on Zoom. Zhou said she tried to open the link and a passcode was required. Susan will follow up.

 2. Ideas for articles:

• Fei Ye suggested that he could try to write an article about the mastery grading system. This article might be useful for future Hy-flex education. Rather than using points or partial credit, mastery grading system are based on the degree of mastery each student has demonstrated of the objectives.
• Zivah suggested that some articles could also be related to the brown bag talks.

3. Fall 2021 and Spring 2002 Brown Bags

 1. Committee members suggested that the Hy-flex related workshops could wait until spring 2022. More faculties will be trained on Hy-flex and some faculties will have experienced one semester of Hy-flex teaching by then.

 2. Rezan from Academic Senate Committee provided the following information:

• Accessibility Committee will provide a brown bag session.
• Faculties suggested they would like more talks about open access publishing. Library may schedule several sessions about this topic.

 3. Susan suggested eLearning Committee should contact CETL and start scheduling brown bags workshops.

 4. Possible workshop topics so far:

• Fei Ye’s session on Markdown (ELC)
• Dr. Pullin’s session onPerusall​ (ADC)
• Jody Resko’s session on office hours (ADC)
• Denis Bejar’s suggestion for Hy-flex (ELC)
• Accessibility Committee session
• Library sessions about open access publishing

4. Revision of the Student Evaluation Form

• Two forms will be used this November. On-line courses will use the proposed revised form. In-person courses will use the unchanged form as previous semesters.

 

5. HyFlex Training and Guidelines

 1. Sandra informed the committee that there will be more Hy-flex training in spring 2022 semester.

 2. Committee members shared their experience and concerns regarding the Hy-flex classes, mainly the technical issues:

• Class room has to be set up for good streaming experience for online students.
• Faculties need good advices on how to promote the meaningful participation of on-line students.
• Fei ye encountered the problem of streaming devices providing mirror images during class which made all words and numbers unrecognizable.
• Randelle and Celia both suggested that Tech support person and in-class teaching assistant might be important when teaching in Hy-flex form.

6. Adjournment

Meeting was adjourned at 3:31 PM. Next meeting will be November 11 2021, 3:10 PM via Zoom.

Respectfully submitted,

Zhou Zhou
Committee on eLearning, Secretary

Minutes typed on Oct 14, 2021