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Committee on eLearning Agenda for meeting to be held November 14, 2019

Agenda

Date: November 14, 2019

Location: Science Building 312

Committee Members: Zeynep Akcay (2020),  Gene Desepoli (2021), Joseph Goldenberg (2021), Zivah-Perel Katz (2022) , Susan Lago (Steering Committee designee), Peter Novick (2020), Nina Sarkar (2020), Randelle Sasa (2022), Kersha Smith (2021), Shiang-Kwei Wang (President’s designee), Zhou Zhou (2022), TBA (CoC designee), TBA (student representatives)

  • Review of October 17th, 2019 minutes
  • OET/CETL update and announcements
  • Denis will talk about the college’s new eLearning page
  • Old business
    • Tech fee meeting: Randelle was not able to attend the meeting on October 29th due to a change of the meeting time
    •  Extending online instruction at QCC: Shiang-Kwei will update us about possible faculty development in eLearning.
  • Subcommittee reports/plans/changes/additions:
    • Marketing of online courses (Gene Desepoli & Peter Novick )
      • (committee newsletter; design and implement a marketing campaign at QCC for higher recognition of online courses)
      • Review the contents of the newsletter that is planned to be published during the month of November
    • Professional Development lunch seminars for online faculty (Susan Lago & Nina Sarkar)
      • (coordinate, promote, and run informal but informative meetings for QCC faculty who are interested in online education)
      • Susan and Fei Ye (Math) will present on Nov 27th. Nina will present next semester.
    • Guidelines and Standards for eLearning at QCC (Zeynep Akcay,  Denis Bejar, Peter Novick, Nina Sarkar)
      • (work with CETL/OET to devise standards/policies for eLearning at QCC to be formally adopted by the Senate)
      • Plan the advertisement of the guidelines to department chairs
  • New business
    • Assessment of online courses (Zivah Katz)
      • Need to work with the Assessment committee concerning online course evaluation/observation
    • Revising the Course Evaluation Forms (Zeynep Akcay & Denis Bejar)
  • Zeynep attended the Academic Development committee meeting on 10/30
  • Review forms for Fnets and traditional classes to create a form for Pnets
  • Announcement: New CUNY Contract includes the teaching observations for online courses.

 

  • Next meeting 3pm, Thursday, December 12, 2019, S-312

Committee Links

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