2025-2026 MELA Minutes

option feature. That is, you are going to request a new tool that you make a minimum of two suggestions as a potential solution and give the committee a little bit of thinking behind why you chose that solution. Meaning what your reason was behind helping the Support Committee begin that search process a little more effectively. Dr. Krista LeBrun, MCCB, talked about government roles and responsibilities, page 3 of the document. She mentioned one of the recommendations because she had the assistance of the executive director, who is her, which she normally puts on there. She mentioned it was changed to keep it generic, to say that the MCCB of the eLearning and Instructional Technology. She mentioned that it will serve as the operational lead. That was the only change. When it says AED, that is still the operation lead. She stated that her office will oversee. They will make sure that they kind of do the light work as it relates to procurements, business cases, doing the research, presenting to the associate, preparing the documentation, timeline analysis, making sure it’s in compliance with any federal or state regulations, etc. That’s the only change: changing it from AED to the MCCB office of eLearning and Instructional Technology. Any other changes to AED were modified to OE. She spoke on what Van Morse had previously talked about, which she mentioned was taken off under the appendices of Potential Solutions, located on page 17. Where there were potential solutions, instead of saying if you’re aware of a tool or vendor, instead its been modified to say, please identify at least two potential tools, vendors, or solutions that may address the identified need. For each proposed solution, provide the following information:

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Product name

Vendor/company website

• A brief explanation of why the solution is being recommended or how it addresses the identified need

Proposed solutions do not need to be formally evaluated or recommended for selection at this stage. This requirement is intended to demonstrate that multiple options have been considered and are available for review. She mentioned that, other than that, the remaining revisions were minor grammatical and spacing changes. She mentioned that she will be turning the appendices into electronic survey forms. Including them in the governance section was simply to