Committee on eLearning Meeting Minutes for May 9, 2019

The Academic Senate Committee on eLearning met on May 9, 2019 at 3:10PM in L-313 (CETL lab)

Committee Members in Attendance:

In Attendance: Zeynep Akcay (2020), Denis Bejar (OET- nonmember), Carlene Byfield (2019), Eugene Desepoli (2021), Ziva Katz (2022), Kevin Kolack (2019), Susan Lago (Steering Committee Designee), Kathleen Landy (President’s designee), Peter Novick (2020), Nina Sarkar (2020), Randelle Sasa (2022), Lakersha Smith (2021), Meg Tarafdar (2019), and Katelyn Urena (Student Representative).

Not present: Joseph Goldenberg (2021), Helmut Loeffler (CoC Designee), and the final new member of the Committee to be appointed by the CoC in the Fall to replace Gina Coppozoli (2022) who was appointed to the Committee but declined.

Business:

The meeting was called to order at 3:10PM

Minutes of April 11^th, 2019 – approved by unanimous vote.

Introduction of new members: Ziva Katz and Randelle Sasa

Acknowledgement of term expiration of: Kevin Kolack, Meg Tarafdar and Carlene Byfield

ACC/CETL update and announcements (Kathleen Landy and Denis Bejar):

• 10 applications have been submitted for the Summer e-Learning Institute. The institute will run the first two weeks of June and 3 of the 8 days will be flipped to fully online.  Letters of acceptance will be sent out shortly.
• Nina questioned if there would be a refresher course for faculty who haven’t taken the institute in a while.  Denis responded that the fully online sessions can be made available to interested faculty. 
• Denis and colleagues are also working on finalizing an introduction to blackboard course.
• Kathleen stated that there will be an email blast to e-learning institute alumni for upcoming webinars.
• Carlene requested that the training be more accessible as many of our faculty teach the summer session.
• The infrastructure for fully online degree programs are not there.  There is a meeting planned for the upcoming Monday to work on accessibility and expansion of the program. We need to offer something that other local schools don’t offer, or can’t offer so we have to be thoughtful in our online program development.
• Susan mentioned that the English department created a survey on electronics and many people were interested in a training in Office/Google Docs etc. Denis supported this statement and said it would be useful campus wide. Kathleen recommended that we look into sending 2-3 faculty members for a training/certification in something like 365 and allow them to run CETL/Faculty Development trainings on campus. ADA compliance is another issue as well.

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)

• Ian sent the survey to market online courses May 7^th.  He will send a reminder.  We hope to receive results for the Fall semester to have data on who would like to convert FNETs to PNETS.
• Tech Fee committee minutes were sent to our committee.  Nobody was available to go.  The chair of our committee has an automatic seat but can send a representative.  Meetings are generally held on Tuesday afternoons.

Brown bag lunches for online faculty (Nina)(coordinate, promote, and run informal but informative meetings for QCC faculty who are interested in online education)

• none

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)

• Guidelines are in place for the Fall.  As a committee, we will continue to review and revise them. 

New business

• Kevin will write up our committee’s annual report and send to the committee members for review. 
• Zeynep Akcay ran unopposed and was elected chair for the 2019-2020 academic year
• Peter Novick ran unopposed and was elected secretary for the 2019-2020 academic year
• Next meeting is TBA for 3:10pm on the Thursday after the Academic Senate meeting.
• Meeting was adjourned at 3:48 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

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