Committee on eLearning Meeting Minutes for April 11, 2019
Minutes
The Academic Senate Committee on eLearning met on April 11, 2019 at 3:10PM in L313 (CETL lab)
Committee Members in Attendance:
Kevin Kolack (2019), Peter Novick (2020), Nina Sarkar (2020), Eugene Desepoli (2021), Zeynep Akcay (2020), Lakersha Smith (2021), Carlene Byfield (2019), Denis Bejar (OET), Susan Lago (Steering Committee Designee) and Katelyn Urena (Student Representative).
Not present: Joseph Goldenberg (2018), Kathleen Landy (President’s designee), Meg Tarafdar (2019), Helmut Loeffler (CoC Designee) and Student Representative 2 (TBA).
Business:
The meeting was called to order at 3:10PM
Minutes of February 21st, 2019 – approved officially with quorum.
Minutes of March 14th, 2019 – approved by unanimous vote.
Introduction of Student Member
ACC/CETL update and announcements (Denis Bejar):
- Denis reported that the e-Learning institute application was sent out two weeks ago and 7 applications have been filed. There is also an initiative to invite hybrid instructors for an institute to convert PNET to FNET courses, but first, 24/7 services for students and faculty must be made available. There is currently no weekend support and the program needs more resources.
Old business
Subcommittee reports/plans/changes/additions:
Marketing of online courses (Meg Tarafdar & Eugene Desepoli) (Committee newsletter; design and implement a marketing campaign at QCC for higher recognition of online courses)
- The survey of e-Learning faculty was again discussed as Kersha has been working on the final changes. She suggested that demographics are either removed or placed at the end of the survey. Carlene added that untenured faculty may not report or be honest in their responses if it asks if they are teaching online courses at other campuses. For this reason, and others, the survey will remain anonymous. Zeynep requested the,”Hello” be removed and the introduction become more formal. Ian will send it out for the committee and Kevin will provide him with the instructor emails if he does not have easy access to them.
- Meg and Gene are working on the newsletter. Gene has access to the Cascade server.
Brown bag lunches for online faculty (Nina) (coordinate, promote, and run informal but informative meetings for QCC faculty who are interested in online education)
- April 10th was the McGraw Hill Blackboard Integration event for faculty. The event had a decent attendance especially because Carlene brought a number of colleagues from her department. Integration into Blackboard wasn’t really discussed and there were lots of questions with very few answers. Denis reported that there will be a support page for faculty and students integrated into the Blackboard courses; however, since we have a contract with Barnes and Noble, using Blackboard to access books may not be allowed.
Policies and Standards for eLearning at QCC (Kevin Kolack, Kathleen Landy, Denis Bejar, Peter Novick) (work with CETL/OET to devise standards/policies for eLearning at QCC to be formally adopted by the Senate)
- The finalized guidelines were presented at the senate on March 12th. They are now available online for all to download and the committee will be open to comments and suggestions.
New business
- April 17th from 3:00-4:30 is the Tech Fee Meeting. Carlene will try to make the meeting, everyone else has a conflict with the date and time.
- April 3rd was the committee chairpersons’ meeting. There is a new template for the meeting agenda and minutes which is web-based so we will no longer have downloadable pdfs.
- The last meeting is approaching and we will be losing 3 members, Carlene, Kevin and Meg. The three new members are Zivah-Perel Katz from English, Randelle Sasa from Nursing and Gina Coppozoli from counseling. Gina said that she has a conflict with the time we meet and has notified the CoC for a replacement.
- Next meeting is May 9th at 3:00pm in CETL.
- Meeting was adjourned at 3:50 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Peter A. Novick
Committee on eLearning, Secretary
Minutes typed on April 15th, 2019
