Chair, Chair Elect, & Past Chair Resources

Resources for the eLearning Council Chair and Chair Elect:

• Get access from the prior Chair to the "eLearningCouncilChair" folder on Dropbox.com . Documents that are not suitable for the public wiki are stored there.

• Get the elc.chair@gmail.com Google account login information from the past or incoming chair.

ELC Leadership Transition

Duties of the ELC Chair and other ELC leadership

General activities:

• Plan quarterly meetings

  • Determine dates and locations:

  • Set agenda

  • Make arrangements for special activities at the meeting site

    • campus tour

    • faculty spotlight

    • yoga (stretch break done in the past)

• Represent ELC at quarterly Instruction Commission meetings

  • IC retreat happens early July (have an idea of what the eLC wants to do before IC retreat - meet with SBCTC Director of eLearning and Open Education first to discuss); 

    • Chair will attend summer retreat and the spring IC meeting

    • Past Chair will attend the summer retreat, quarterly IC meetings: afternoon of day 1 to report. Welcome to stay for professional development activities on morning of second day.

    • Incoming Chair is invited to attend the summer retreat, but is not required.

  • Develop work plan that enables ELC to meet IC goals

  • Make sure the ELC makes progress on work plan

  • Represent ELC as needed throughout the year

• Meetings:

  • Around the table: Two minute time limit for sharing; write the rest.  Break it up throughout the meeting into regions presenting and then the note taker can take notes on it and colleges don't have to write up ahead.

  • Purchase a case to store all of the audio/video equipment

  • eLearning Award

  • "How do you......."  continue to do 1-2 per meeting (10-15 minutes)

  • Work plan/goals reflect IC goals. These topics inform the work groups /subcommittees. IC creates a draft work plan at the summer retreat, then go over it at fall eLC meeting.  May have to change it based on what IC finalizes as their work plan at their fall meeting.