Committee on eLearning Agenda for meeting to be held October 17, 2019

Agenda

Date: October 17, 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 September 12th, 2019 minutes
  • OET/CETL update and announcements
  • Denis will talk about the college’s new eLearning page
    • The Academic Development committee will meet on October 23rd and are welcoming a member of our committee
    • Review Zeynep’s revision suggestions
  • Review of the activities of the year
    • Zivah will explain the details of the ‘Charges and Activities form’ to be submitted to Academic Senate Steering Committee
  • Old business
    • Tech fee meeting: Randelle will attend the meeting on October 29th.
  • 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 Peter’s summary to include in the newsletter
    • Professional Development lunch seminars for online faculty (Nina Sarkar & Susan Lago)
      • (coordinate, promote, and run informal but informative meetings for QCC faculty who are interested in online education)
      • Susan and Nina will organize a workshop
    • Guidelines and Standards for eLearning at QCC (Denis Bejar, Zeynep Akcay, Kathleen Landy, 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 (?)
      • Need to work with the Assessment committee concerning online course evaluation/observation
    • Revising the Course Evaluation Forms (Zeynep Akcay & ?)
  • Next meeting 3pm, Thursday, November 14, 2019, S-312

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