Committee on eLearning Meeting Minutes for February 11, 2021
Minutes
The Academic Senate Committee on eLearning met on February 11, 2021 at 3:00PM via Zoom (Online)
Committee Members in Attendance:
In Attendance: Randelle Sasa (2022), Susan Lago (2022), Punita Bhansali (2023), Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols (2021), Eugene Desepoli III (2021), Merlinda Drini Prelvukaj (2023), Zhou Zhou (2022), Zivah Perel Katz (Steering Committee Designee), Denis Bejar (IT Academic Applications Director)
Not present: Lakersha Smith (2021), Sandra Palmer (President's Designee)
Business:
The meeting was called to order at 3:06 PM
I. Minutes of December 10, 2020 meeting were approved with edits.
II. Randelle announced that he is stepping down as Chair at the end of the semester. We will hold an election at the last meeting of the semester.
- Randelle reached out to David Moretti and they will meet on March 22 to discuss an html template for the newsletter. Randelle asked for contributions to the newsletters and suggested that someone can write about transitioning back to campus in the Fall and/or about hybrid. The Chancellor wants students to have an option. Susan suggested writing up the Faculty Development Series with an eye toward transition and/or hybrid.
- Randelle sat in the ADC meeting. They were planning the same as the eLearning Brown Bags. Randelle told them that the eLearning Committee had planned the first Brown Bag will be tentatively scheduled for March 17, 2021. Randelle showed the tentative schedule for a joint Faculty Development Series with eLearning and ADC:
March 25 @ 3pm: Melissa Dennihy (Time Management)
April 8 or 9: Punita Bhansali (VoiceThread)
April 15 @ 2pm: Susan Lago (TED-Ed)
April 22 or 23: John Yi (Flipgrid)
- Policies and Standards for eLearning at QCC: Randelle said last week he sent out a link to the survey, which is another collaboration with the ADC. We need to make some changes to the evaluation tool. Rezen said that changes can’t be made without data to support the change. Therefore, a survey will be sent out to general faculty. Randelle said he will email us the survey.
- Denis said we will offer the eLearning Institute in April and another one in the summer. He said that the ADC is working with his staff testing different cameras and they will run a pilot maybe by the end of the semester. Remote students will be able to see what’s happening in the classroom via a high res camera and either Collaborate or Zoom. Susan said she’ll volunteer to help test the pilot because she’s had both doses of the vaccine and lives close to campus. Faculty will have to establish procedures for how remote and online students will participate in the class.
Adjournment
Meeting was adjourned at 3.29 by Randelle Sasa. The next general meeting will beApril 15, 2021, 3PM via Zoom.
Respectfully submitted,
Susan Lago
Committee on eLearning, Secretary
Minutes typed on February 11, 2021
