MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

The results indicated that 83.33% agree that another position should be created for the MCCB office in eLearning. The Administrative Committee will draft a job description and along with the proposal present this new position to the MCCB office.

Keri made the motion to request a proposal to be made and Jennifer Powell seconded. Motion carried.

V.

New Business a. Items for Academic Officer meeting. Jennifer Leimer will send Alicia the new evaluations that were approved by the ELC Association. Jennifer is rearranging the sections of the Policy & Procedure manual and will email the updated version to the group before it goes to the Academic Deans. b. New Workforce Initiative. Credit by examination. People that have workforce experience will have the opportunity to complete workforce courses within Blackboard. They can continue through thresholds and complete some kind of credential process. We will help with creating templates for the workforce courses in Blackboard. The ELCs may need to be involved minimal with this process.

Terry discussed that a company will be the ones to conduct the training. The training sessions will be offered through the Academy.

VI.

MCCB Business-Christian Pruett and Terry Pollard

a. MCCB Email Addresses. The email addresses for the MCCB employees are now ending with mccb.edu, not mscbcjc.edu.

b. Instructor of the Year. Let Christian know if there are any problems with the system when submitting your Instructor of the Year nominations. He would like to have the evaluations done by the first week of November. For the 2010-2011 year, the ELC group will be able to submit those nominations sometime in the spring. c. Graduation and Retention Committee. Christian would like for everyone to respond to his email about the Retention Committee. The committee needs to be established and ready to meet in the next couple of days. He emphasized that he would like to have an instructional designer, institutional research, and eLearning Coordinators to be part of this committee. Also he would like for an eLearning Coordinator to be chair of the committee. If you are interested in being chair of the Retention Committee, please email Christian. d. Snapshot Review Webinars. Did we receive an email from Blackboard on Friday? The majority of the ELCs said “no”. Terry will send out the recorded webinars to the ELC group. e. ELT meeting details. The group will be meeting on Oct. 26 th . The trainers will discuss the GoSignMe up system and Blackboard Collaboration training materials. Also the group will discuss what Academy courses will be offered Spring 2012.

f. Clarification on import/export permissions. Terry was unclear about how many of us wanted to turn off the import/export permission? Does the group want to turn this off?

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