Committee on eLearning A Queensborough Community College Academic Senate Standing Committee Minutes of Committee meeting held May 14th, 2015, Room A214 Meeting called to order 3:11PM In attendance: Jodie Childers, Edward Davis, Nidhi Gadura, Julita Haber (chair‐ via Skype), Kwang Kim, Kevin Kolack (secretary), Bruce Naples (President’s designee), Barbara Saur, Eileen White Also in attendance (2015‐2016 new members): William Blick, Dimitrios Kokkinos, Namdar Hamid Not present: Dona Boccio (CoC designee), James Cutrone (leaving QCC; the CoC is not replacing him on the committee now as he has not formally resigned, and it is the end of the year) 
Introduction of new members 
Review of April 16th , 2015 minutes – approved with one minor change (addition of VoiceThread notes; final version of minutes to be sent/posted online) 
Bruce Naples made comments on his report (simply pasted below‐ my notes are in red‐ ksk) 
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The Office of Strategic Planning, Assessment and lnstitutional Effectiveness has completed the eLearning lnstitute survey. They will be publishing the results, but I can report that a preliminary synopsis shows very positive outcomes. o SLO of online courses still not assessed, but Bruce hopes that they will be The Blackboard course‐size limit has been officially announced as 750MB. Starting next semester faculty rolling over courses larger than 750MB will receive a message that they must first reduce the size of the course. The ACC is ready to help with this task. o Faculty are encouraged to use the new Content Management System within Blackboard to host their multimedia and interactive components (images, audio, small videos, SoftChalk sites, etc.) Then, rolling over a course, or using an item in multiple courses, will not duplicate the assets. Large videos should still be hosted on the College Media Server or YouTube or Vimeo.  Instructions for using the CMS are online (like last month’s VoiceThread instructions) The ACC and lT are working together to make StarFish available for students within Blackboard. Hopefully, this will be online by Fall 2015. o There will still be a separate login for faculty required as there is no Bb module available to integrate a single login for faculty. o There was a discussion of the feeback options available within Bb. These native functions are not as functional as Starfish in that there is no tracking, notification of learning centers, etc. They simply notify the student, and thus to get the early intervention outcomes we wanted, an additional vendor was needed. 1 Committee on eLearning A Queensborough Community College Academic Senate Standing Committee Minutes of Committee meeting held May 14th, 2015, Room A214 
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Digication user authentication and login programming is now working. This may allow us to widen the use of ePortfolios. Our next task will be to do Gen Ed assessment using Digication. Digication has just announced a partnership with Credly to integrate digital badges in ePortfolios, allowing students to display evidence of skills and competencies earned in their courses. o We have a 1,000‐user license (1,000 active users; could have 3,000 users total).  Just upped to 2,000  Can’t afford 16,000 (all students), though not enough users anyway  BUT, not widely advertised because of limit  Instructors must request use  Biggest users are HIPs  Multimedia works great in Digication (so far, there’s no size limit, though one is anticipated as we sign up more users, as with Bb) 
Reports of progress from the five subcommittees (summaries below; written year‐end reports attached‐ any updates/changes should be emailed to Kevin ASAP for inclusion in the minutes) I. Improve the E‐learning Readiness Program Kevin Kolack & (i.e., replace text via media, engage students & professors, Eileen White coordinate with the video recording studio, assess videos) ‐ Was too big a job to do in 1 year for 2 people, especially since last year’s committee work was lost. ‐
Will continue next year with committee help. II. Marketing of online courses (i.e., design and implement a marketing campaign at QCC for higher recognition of online courses) ‐
Jodi reached out to VAPA, Visual Arts, and Business. ‐
Flyer was created. ‐
Next year: reach out to departments (dept. chairs) Nidhi Gadura & Jodie Childers III. Brown bag lunches for online faculty (i.e., coordinate, promote, and run informal but informative meetings for QCC faculty who are interested in online education) 2 Barbara Saur & Ed Davis Committee on eLearning A Queensborough Community College Academic Senate Standing Committee Minutes of Committee meeting held May 14th, 2015, Room A214 ‐
Success! ‐
Topics picked for next year based on survey; 1 or 2 in the Fall. ‐
Postcard/advertising plan upgraded based on lessons learned. IV. ELearning institute Webpage (i.e., update the E‐learning Institute webpage, work closely with Denis Bejar) ‐ Redesigned again. ‐
Kwang Hyun Kim Ready to be uploaded to QCC server once get the 2015 schedule and feedback/proofreading by committee. V. Embed health videos on the E‐learning Website (i.e., select links and recommend fitness program to enhance e‐
Learning, coordinate the effort with the Health Department, update the website, promote healthy learning online) ‐
Julita Haber Will have something to post on QCC site before summer 
Brainstorming for next year o Work on subcommittees I, II, III and V could/should continue with adaptations to continue to provide deliverables. IV should be turned over to Bruce/Denis for updates as needed since it’s their Institute. o Perhaps a mobile learning (phone/tablet apps) group? o How OER can better be used in curriculum? o A group to encourage/help faculty to use the One Button Studio? Perhaps work with students from Eileen’s department as the “crew” for faculty productions? o Perhaps a survey of QCC/elsewhere to see what programs/apps are in use and what content is used in online courses? Is QCC on the cutting edge? o Group to incorporate or investigate the use of resources in the library that might be embedded in Blackboard? 
Voting for the Chair and Secretary by the 2015‐2016 committee members 3 Committee on eLearning A Queensborough Community College Academic Senate Standing Committee Minutes of Committee meeting held May 14th, 2015, Room A214 o Nominations were made from the floor (Kevin for Chair; Namdar for Secretary) o Kevin was unanimously elected Chair by secret ballot o Namdar was unanimously elected Secretary by secret ballot 
Julita was thanked for a productive year as Chair 
The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for 3PM, Thursday, September 10th, 2015. 
The meeting ended at 4:01PM. 
Bruce suggested via email that the Committee be prepared (prior to next semester) to ensure the eLearning Readiness Survey is deployed to students and that a topic/date/room be chosen for the first Brown Bag Lunch. Submitted by: Kevin Kolack 4 Kevin Kolack, Ph.D.
kkolack@qcc.cuny.edu
Department of Chemistry, S-408, Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364-1497
718-281-5037
Committee on eLearning
Subcommittee on Improving the eLearning Readiness Program
2014-2015 year-end report
Goal: revise eLearning Readiness Program based on work of prior committee
Challenges:
 Work of prior committee appears to have been lost
 Pages written in Softchalk; changes must be supplied to Denis to be entered
 Adding video and revising text was more labor-intensive than anticipated
Accomplishments:
 Videos for Modules 1 and 4 nearly complete
 Text revisions for Modules 1 and 2 complete (attached) and ready for deployment
Project anticipated to be completed over the summer
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course successfullV- YÒu may. however. need lo corne on{ampus for an orientat¡on and exams.
,y"ln PilET and FNET classes the onltne mecnanism iai îeceLring ass,,gnnienfs, fo,Iu¡,Ìing in assig,.lr¡enls. and lor discussion $'t/.I Vout ¡os¡,'rjc¡o¡ and !ou{ feilotli studen¡s /s Cu'/t /nto [tE 8/ac¡(þoa¡d
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course pre-requis¡tes,
. Regtster for the eLearning course as vou would for any course at Queensborough Community Cotlege
. Have access to * comDufer equiÞment rvith an in(ernet cpnneCt¡on
. Have necessary computer sk¡lls includ¡ng the ability to cut and paste. place attachments onto el,4ail. and conduct lntemet searches
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. Allow suff¡cient t¡me to complete the work requirenìentsiassignnents for the course (appro,\imately I to 12 hours per
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. Send an email to the teacher or a lellow student.
- Attach a file to an ema¡l þefore sending it.
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- Take quizes or eIârns onfine. Take qurzzes or erams on-campus. Partic¡pate in an online cliscuss¡on board,
- Me€t in a chat room lor online class discussions.
. Listen to a recording or watch a video,
. Wr¡te blog/journal entries or wrne ¡n a Wiki
- Part¡cipate in online group activities.
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GÕod manners are importänl, You are ellpected to treât vour classmates and instructor \,vith respect. Here are some important nettquette
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. Everyone deserves to be treated as a respected colleague. so e:{hibit the same
courtesy to your classmates ancl professor. as you would expect to recetve in the
norkplace ll is okay to d¡sagree about the subject nunner Eìut. be open-m¡nded
and accepting of constructive cril¡cism and differences of opínion
. l''lake certain that your tone is pos¡tive and profess¡onal. Eiefore you h¡t the
"submn" button. review your message carefully Ask yourself tf you vr,ould want Vour
message to appear on the front page of the.,\'e$, Ibrk Times with your name and
photograph Remember everything you subm¡t is being recorded
. "Flaming," or "bashing." Ís when someone attacks a person ¡nstead of the logic of
hrs or her argument- Flaming will not Þe tolerated.
. Sarcasm or other forms of personal abuse w¡ll not lead to Þetter grades lt will not
be tolerated and will nave a negative effect on your grade
. Offering constructive cr¡ticism is alì,vays appropriate.
- 11 someone posts a messãge that is difficult to understand or ofenstve. ask for
clarification. Online comnìun¡cation is more easily misunderstood than face-to-face
communication,
. 6e forgiv¡ng. lf you feel thal someone has anacked you personally. do not
respond ¡n t(tnd. lnstead. inform your ¡nstructor.
2. Behavior.
- AnV behavior
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3. Writing.
. Wrìt¡ng for an online class ¡s formal wr¡t¡ng so use prop'er Engl¡sh.
. Avoid humor. as ¡t is easily misunderstood. Profanity rs never acceptable. Avo¡d slang
- Avoid jargon unless practit¡oners of the discipline commonly use it.
- Avoid acronyms
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- Do not overuse exclamat¡on points (f )
- Read typed discussion threads from the first rnessage to the last before you write.
. Thrnk before you wrile -, Asl( yourself if your rnesffige is coherent- lf you are not sure. read it to sorrleone else before posting it. Be clear and concis€, Oo not burden the class with rambl¡ng. repetit¡ve postings.
. Use short paragraphs (three to four lines). as they are much eas¡er to read online.
- Proofread. proofread. proofread- Use the spelling and grarnmar checker thal cornes with your ì¡rord processor. then paste your comrrEnts into the Blackboarcl
fnessage or email.
tL Privacy.
- Protect your privacy. Class discussions are open forums for the entire class. lf you have sofiEthing private to say to your instructor. send him or her an ema¡l
or v¡sit dur¡ng office hours
- Protect everyone else's privacy: Do nol spam your classmates or ¡nstruclor, Do not invite tnem to see Vour Facebook page. listen lo your sales p¡tches. or
discuss an!'thing other than the course curriculum_
. Nlever send harâssing ema¡ls,
. lf you want to soc¡al¡ze wim cbssmates. us€ your private email address.
5. Participalion. n/hen you actively participate ¡n lhe d¡scuss¡on. you are more tikely to be rewarded and viewed as a valued member of the class,
- Reading rîessages without participating w¡ll not only hurt your grade- it is considered rude.
- ìvvhen you don't part¡c¡pate ¡n fhe online activities of a course. you are l¡kely to be marked absent for that class,
6. Deadlines.
- M¡ssing deadl¡nes ¡s rude. as it can intelere with the operation of the online class.
. Each ¡nstructor will have lheir own policy regard¡ng miss€d cleadlines. However. you are responsible for submitting your assignments on time, lf you miss a
deadline, contact your instruclor immediately to discuss your options,
7. Protectyourself.
. Always save and print your wort( before posting and ernailing.
. Save your work to tñe hard drive of your persofial coÍçxrter_
- Back up your hard dnve onen.
. Keep pr¡nted copies of your work.
. Protecl voursell ând your cläss¡nates from computer viruses by us¡ng an ãnti-virus program. You can obtain a free ant¡-v¡rus program at the Soflware Center
on the CUNY eN4all.
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Aüendance.
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your respons¡Þility to check the BlackÞoard course site r€gularly.
. Plan on devoting at teast g - 12 hours of course tirne per week for a three{recf it course-
. When vou don'l panicipate in the online activities of a course you are more likely to be rnãrked as absent for that class. Let your instructor lmow if vou w¡tl þe absent,
- Check the Discuss¡on Forums and your ema¡l often.
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- Always save and print your work before posting and emailing.
- Save your work to the hard drive of your personal computer.
- Back up your hard drive often-
. Keep printed copies of your work_
. Protect yourself and your classmates fronì computer viruses þy using an anti-v¡rus program. You can obtain a free ant¡-virus program at the Sofiware Center
on theE!lUJ]v!ë!J
8. Attendance.
. lt is your responsibility to check me BlaclÕoard course site regularly.
. Plan on devoting al least 9 - 12 hours of course time p€r week for a three+redil course.
. \¡/hen you don't parlicipate in the online activit¡es of a course you are more likely to þe marked as absent lorlhat class.
- Let your instructor know ¡f you will be absent
- Check the Discussion Forums ancf vour email often_
. Promptlv replv lo comments about your postings on d¡scussion forums and to any eMails
. Try to responcl rvithin 24 hours, but do not to take longer than 48 hours.
9. Please contact your ¡nstructor if you have any questionr about net¡quette.
Self-Review Questions
Your answers from the Self-Review wonl be collected, analyzed or graded. The rn¡in purpose of th¡s act¡v¡ty as to help you understand some
¡mportant Net¡quette rules that all members of the Queensborough Commun¡ty College community are expecterl to follow.
Directions' For each question in the Self-Review Questions. select one anslver Þy cl¡cKng the þutton next to it, When you are fìn¡shed answer¡ng all of the
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FinishedTasks
Afterdiscoveringthatover30%ofourstudentsarenotawarethattheyenrolledin
PNETorFNETclassesonthefirstdayofclasses,wedecidedtocreatea
subcommitteefocusedonfillinginthisinformationgap.Ourcommittee’scharge
wastofindwaystohelpstudentsandadvisorsbecomemorecognizantofPNETand
FNETdesignationswhenregisteringforclasses.NidhiGaduradesignedaflyer
explainingthePNETandFNETdesignationswithinputfromBruceNaplesandAnn
Tuillo.TheshecontactedDr.JoanGreenhut,RobertKueper,ScottBeltzer,Dr.Moni
ChauhanfromSTEMAcademy,GailPattersonfromHealthSciencesAcademyand
VickiefromASAP.Theemailwassentwiththeattachedflyer(seeattachedemail
andflyer)andwasfollowedupbyphonecallstoVickie,ScottandDr.Chauhan.It
wasexplainedthatsincealotofstudentsdon’trealizethePNET,FNETdesignations
whentheyregister,itiscriticalthatdiscussionhappensduringadvisementperiod.
JodieChilderscontactedtheLiberalArtsAcademy,theVisualPerformingArts
Academy,andtheBusinessAcademy(seeattachedemail).
FutureTasks
Duringthesemester,Jodiealsoresearcheddifferentwaysinwhichonlinelearning
ismarketedatotherCUNYschools.Nextsemester,itwouldbevaluabletobuildoff
ofthisinformationandbeginthinkingabouttheoverallbrandingandmarketingof
eLearninginthecollegeasawholeandtodevisewaystocontinuedisseminating
necessaryinformationtostudentsabouteLearningwhilealsoadvertisingthe
strengthsoftheprogram.
Weattemptedtosetupameetingwithmarketingthissemesterbutwereunableto
alignourschedules.Thiscouldbesomethingthatwedointhefallaswecontinueto
thinkaboutwaystopromoteonlinelearning.
Attachments:
Email
Flyer
DearAcademyAdvisors:
AspartoftheeLearningCommittee,Ihavebeenchargedtohelpstudentsbecome
morecognizantofonlinecoursedesignationswhenregisteringforcourses.The
eLearningCommitteehasdiscoveredthatnearly30%ofourstudentsdon'trealize
whentheyareregisteredforfullyorpartiallyonlinecoursesandonlyfindouton
thefirstdayofclasses.InordertohelpstudentsunderstandthePNETandFNET
designationsonCUNYfirst,wehavedevisedaflyerthatmaybeusefulwhen
registeringstudentsorwhentalkingwithstudentsabouttheironlineoptions.
I'mattachingacopyoftheflyer.Thankyoufortime,andpleaseletmeknowifyou
haveanyquestions.
Allbest,
JodieChilders
eLearningCommittee
Dear Moni, Bob, Joan and Scott,
I am writing this email as part of a QCC eLearning Committee member.
It is my responsibility in the committee to reach out to academy advisors regarding
issues that we face with online courses on campus.
a) A lot of faculty reported that over 30% of students in the online class are not
even aware that the have registered for a fully online FNET or partially online
PNET course. These designations are there on CUNYfirst but students tend to
ignore them sometimes.
b) Some students register for these classes thinking that it will be less work since it
is less time spent on campus.
We are hoping that since students see their academy advisors first, you guys can
serve as a first line of dissemination of this important information for us.
Can you please share this with all the advisors at your next meeting or feel free to
email it to students as you see fit. Should you have anymore questions regarding
the same, I will be more than happy to talk to you in person as well.
Thanks!
Nidhi
eLearning end of semester report
Sub‐committeeFacultyBrownbagLunch
May14,2015
Submittedby:BarbaraSaurandEdwardDavis
Accomplishments:
The Brown Bag Lunch was successful.
 The work within the Brown Bag Subcommittee finally saw light with our
first event, "20 Minute Webinar : What kinds of questions encourage
student interaction”- April 1, 2015 with a showing of 15 attendees.
 Print outs of the webinar PPT’s were provided by Bruce Naples.
 Faculty held a very engaging dialogue and shared their strategies they
utilize to help engage student interaction in the classroom.
 A free massage was raffled off at the close of our lunch. Massage was
donated by QCC Massage Therapy.
 Cookies and coffee were provided by Bruce Naples
 Survey results were positive and the committee plans to sponsor more
Brown Bag Lunches in the future.
Some challenges met:
 The plan was to sponsor 2 brown bag lunches in the spring semester.
Other activities on campus made this a challenge. Only one was
accomplished.
 The mode of communication or invitation created a bit of a problem. We
utilized the publishers program to create post card invitations. There was
much red tape, marketing issues and financial concern regarding printing
actual post cards in Printing Dept. Then Ed and I opted to send it
electronically via email, unsuccessfully. The program chosen to create the
post card invitation was not easily compatible to all servers on campus
rendering it unusable. Finally with the help of Bruce Naples who
reformatted the post card and imbedded the rsvp into the mailing the
invitations were sent electronically. However the result of this was the
print was blurred and difficult to read. Another memo-like invitation with
rsvp was sent successfully .
Future plan
 20 minute mentor topics for next semester as indicated to be topics of
interest to the brown bag lunch participants in the post workshop survey
have been selected.
Topics are:
 Rubrics
 effective {online} group management; using writing in the classroom
 New apps in teaching and learning
 Plan for two next semester October and November
 Use Microsoft word to create the invitation. Not to be excessively
elaborate.
 Consider to have a recorder take notes next year and write an article to
be published.
Report of project progress – E-learning institute website
Subcommittee -E-Learning institute Webpage
Member :KWANG HYUN KIM
URL(Development): http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/mathCS/personal/kkim/el2/#/
Finished tasks
1. We finished the basic structure of e learning institute
website including the sidebar.
2. New logo for the website was created and added.
3. We reconstructed the entire website structures using
the Google Angular Material framework for future
flexibility.
4. We added one Case study from Dr. Nidhi Gadrura.
5. We added a mobile support partially.
In progress
1. We are waiting for 2015 schedule of e-learning
institute.
2. Links - We are adding more useful links for e-learning institute.
3. Case studies- We are seeking experienced faculties to interview.
4. Report - We are collecting documents related to e-learning institute.
Future tasks
1. Debugging: Committee and ACC will review the website.
2. Full mobile support: We will update the Header and footer which are maintained by the
college.
3. Deployment - We are currently using the personal webpage for the development. We need
a permission from ACC to deploy it to the e learning institute on the QCC server.