Committee on eLearning Meeting Minutes for February 14, 2024

The Academic Senate Committee on eLearning met on February 14, 2024

Committee Members in Attendance:

 

Present: Anthony Monahan (chair), Shenaz Ida (secretary), Fei Ye, Mohammad Javdan , Deon Gibson, Emily El Halouani, Humberto Morales, Daniel Garbin, Barbara Frary

Absent: Chukwudi, Ikwueze

Guest: Rezan Akpinar- Chairperson for the Academic Development Committee 

 

 

Business:

The meeting was called to order at 13:02

eLearning Committee Members:

Anthony Monahan (Chair-2024), Shenaz Ida (secretary-2025), Humberto Morales (2024), Fei, Ye (2024), Daniel Garbin (2025),  Barbara Frary (2026), Emily El Halouani (2026), Mohammad Javdan (2026), Chukwudi, Ikwueze, Deon Gibson

Designees: Arthur Corradetti (Dean for Institutional Effectiveness, OAA), Denis Bejar (IT Academic Applications Director).

Old Business 

1. Approval of minutes of 12/12/23 with edits of correct name spelling and eLearning spelling.
2. Committee Etiquettes: Chairperson Monahan discussed the correct procedure for members to take if they will be absent to meetings or if they cannot fulfill their agreed upon commitment to the committee.  Is such a circumstance should occur, then members should notify the committee chairperson or the committee secretary. Members agree to this procedure.
3. Guest speaker Rezan Akpinar, chairperson of the Academic Development Committee introduced self and offered to work collaboratively with eLearning committee chairperson to help disseminate information about Brightspace to faculty in preparation to starting using the platform in the Fall 24 semester. A special push to engage adjuncts.
4. Spring 2024 eLearning newsletter- Daniel Garbin topics Chat GPT, Barbara Frary- ACUE, Shenaz Ida- put together links for Brightspace workshops recordings to be disseminated to all faculty including Adjuncts. This will help faculty who are unable to attend the workshop.
5. Tony attended AI Education Workshop on Using AI in academia, some ethical issues with its applications and how best to utilize this new technology was discussed.
6. Brightspace champions- being available to department and faculty to guide them and answer questions regarding Brightspace. One issue is that there is a time limit for online classes. This is still being worked out.
7. Deon Gibson presented the faculty survey for self-assessment regarding needs for eLearning. This is a 12-question survey. Deon will make minor edits, but it was adapted to be disseminated to the QCC faculty.  The platform will be determined by Tony.

New Business

1. Emily El Halouani volunteered to be the editor for the committee.
2. Completed articles will no longer be sent directly to Nishat Farquit but rather be sent to the Web Applications at Webservice@qcc.cuny.edu or faculty can upload directly to CASCADE
3. Shenaz gave brief updates on Brightspace, QCC will start teaching on Brightspace in the summer 24. Faculty should start to clean up their courses for course migration.  More information and FAQ can be found on: https://www.cuny.edu/academics/brightspace-transition/.
4. Tony reviewed article titles and authors for eLearning newsletter. Members to think about topics for the spring newsletter. We already have one and usually need 2 to 3
5. Tony will invite and coordinate with Dr. Rezan Akpinar, Academic Development Committee to coordinate efforts to help faculty with transition to Brightspace.
6. Deon Gibson discussed the faculty survey draft and some of the elements for committee members to think about as we work to put it together.                      

 

With no other business to address the

Meeting was adjourned at 13:27 pm

 

Approved by: eLearning Committee members on 2/14/24 after correct spelling of eLearning.

Uploaded by: Shenaz Ida

Respectfully submitted,

Shenaz Ida
Committee on eLearning, Secretary

Minutes typed on November 8, 2023