Annual Report 2024-2025
Previous year committee membership, including year when each member’s term ends
Shenaz Ida (chair) 2025
Daniel Garbin (2025)
Barbara Frary (secretary) 2026
Emily El Halouani (Editor for Newletter) 2026
Mohammad Javdan (2026)
Wei, Lai (2026)
Karan Puri (2027)
Angela Ridinger-Dotterman-replacement for Tanya Zhelezcheva (2027) out of FMLA
Wenjian Liu (2026)
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)
Deon Gibson (2028)
Wilfredo Moran (2028)
Jodi Van Der Horn Gibson (2028)
Previous year committee officers
Shenaz Ida (chair)
Barbara Frary (secretary) 2026
Emily El Halouani (Editor for Newletter) 2026
Upcoming year committee officers
Wei Lai, Chair (2025)
Barbara Frary, Secretary (2026)
Emily El Halouani, Newsletter Editor (2026)
Committee Meeting Dates and times
10-23-2024
11-13-2024
12-18-2024
3-12.2025
4-9-2025
5-14-2025
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:
1. 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;
1. During the 2024-2025 academic year members of the eLearning Committee reported on the following:
- Guidelines for best practices in the online environment (Committee)
- ACUE training completed by Shenaz Ida and Barbara Frary
- Continue to support faculty as the learn to navigate Brightspace.
2. The eLearning Committee members worked to update the committee charges to more closely mirror current eLearning practices at QCC.
3. Revised charges submitted to the Bylaws committee. Needs follow-up in September as to its status.
4. Chair Ida participated in the OAA book club featuring “Co-intelligence, Living and Working with AI” by Ethan Mollick -and published a newsletter on effective ways to use Chat GPT in academia in the 2025 eLearning Committee newsletter.
5. The committee reviewed committee etiquette and clarified the procedure for members to take if they will be absent from meetings or if they cannot fulfill their agreed upon commitment to the committee. If such circumstances, members should notify the committee chairperson or the committee secretary.
6. Committee members volunteer to write articles for our newsletter published every May and December. Emily El Halouani continues to be our committee editor. This was a position that was created and voted upon during the 2023-2024 academic year.
7. Committee elections occurred on May 14, 2025. Wei, Lai (2026) was elected Chair for the 2025-2026 term, Barbara Frary (2026) was reelected to serve as the Secretary, Emily El Halouani was also reelected to serve as the editor for the upcoming term.
8. The committee was not notified of any new members to replace the outgoing members (Shenaz Ida and Daniel Gruban). No new members was in attendance at the May 14th 2025 end of term meeting.
Committee recommendations for upcoming year
Moving forward the elearning committee needs to follow up on request for changes to their charges
