Annual Report 2023-2024
Previous year committee membership, including year when each member’s term ends
Tony Monahan, Chair (2024)
Humberto Morales (2024)
Fei Ye (2024)
Daniel Garbin (2025)
Shenaz Georgilis (2025)
Barbara Frary (2026)
Emily El Halouani (2026)
Mohammad Javdan (2026)
Deon Gibson (temporary appointee for 2023-2024)
Chudi Ikwueze (temporary appointee for 2023-2024)
Previous year liaisons, designees
Denis Bejar, IT Academic Applications Director)
Arthur Corradetti, Dean for Institutional Effectiveness, Office of Academic Affairs
Upcoming year committee membership, including year when each member’s term ends
Daniel Garbin (2025)
Shenaz Georgilis (2025)
Barbara Frary (2026)
Emily El Halouani (2026)
Mohammad Javdan (2026)
Wei, Lai (2027)
Karan Puri (2027)
Tanya Zhelezcheva (2027)
Previous year committee officers
Tony Monahan, Chair (2024)
Shenaz Georgilis, Secretary (2025)
Upcoming year committee officers
Shenaz Georgilis, Chair (2025)
Barbara Frary, Secretary (2026)
Emily El Halouani, Newsletter Editor (2026)
Committee Meeting Dates and times
10-11-2023
11-8-2023
12-13-2023
2-14-2024
4-10-2024
5-15-2024
All meetings began at 1:00 pm
List of Bylaws charges and notation of “completed” or “not completed” with reasoning for incomplete items
The Bylaws of the College as approved at the Senate state that the Committee shall:
- Report and make recommendations to the Academic Senate on all matters related to eLearning, in particular concerning policies and procedures related to the development of, support for, and offering of fully online, partially online, hybrid and web-enhanced programs, degrees and classes;
- During the 2023-2024 academic year members of the eLearning Committee reported on the following:
- Guidelines for best practices in the online environment (Committee)
- ACUE training (Barbara Frary)
- Faculty preparation for the transition to Brightspace (Deon Gibson)
- Faculty Champions Program (Tony Monahan)
- Organized links for Brightspace workshop recordings (Shenaz Ida)
- Chat GPT (Daniel Garbin)
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- The eLearning Committee coordinated with the Computer Resources Committee (Jonggu Moon) in order to present on practices and reporting on our respective newsletters.
- The committee met with Rezan Akpinar, chairperson of the Academic Development Committee to explore collaborative projects with eLearning committee, particularly to help disseminate information about Brightspace to faculty.
- The following eLearning Committee members were appointed to the Faculty Champions team to assist in the Brightspace transition in their respective departments: Barbara Frary, Humberto Morales: Business, Deon Gibson: Social Science, Shenaz Ida: Nursing, Tony Monahan: Health, Physical Education & Dance, Fei Ye: Mathematics & Computer Science
- Deon Gibson completed a faculty survey for self-assessment regarding needs for eLearning. This is a 12-question survey. The survey was sent to Victor Fichera to upload onto the QCC Survey platform. It is currently on TBA status.
- Chair Monahan attended an AI Education Workshop on Using AI in academia, some ethical issues with its applications and how best to utilize this new technology was discussed.
- The committee reviewed committee etiquette in order to clarify 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. If such a circumstance should occur, members should notify the committee chairperson or the committee secretary. Members agree to this procedure.
- The committee voted to create a new position of eLearnining Newsletter Editor. Responsibilities for this position include: collection, review, editing, and submission of articles for the fall (December) and spring (May) newsletters. Emily El Halouani was voted to assume this position.
- Committee elections occurred in April, 2024. Shenaz Georgilis (2025) was elected Chair for the 2024-2025 term and Barbara Frary was elected as Secretary.
- The committee welcomed new members Wei, Lai (2027) Foreign Languages, Karan Puri (2027) Math, and Tanya Zhelezcheva (2027) English.
List of Steering Committee charges and notation of “completed” or “not completed” with reasoning for incomplete items
10-11-2023
11-8-2023
12-13-2023
2-14-2024
4-10-2024
5-15-2024
All meetings began at 1:00 pm
Summary of actions not covered by above
The committee, in conjunction with the Academic Development Committee, proposed to organize and promote a Brightspace workshop geared towards Adjunct Faculty. We did not receive a response from this proposal.
Committee recommendations for upcoming year
Moving forward into the 2024-2025 academic year, it is recommended that the committee continue to work with faculty in all departments to help with the transition to Brightspace.
It is also recommended that the committee recruit student membership to better help the student body with transitioning to Brightspace
