Open Access9. Quality Matters: A Faculty-Centred Program to Assure Quality in Online Course Design
Author(s) -
Kay Shattuck
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
collected essays on learning and teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2368-4526
DOI - 10.22329/celt.v3i0.3239
Subject(s) - rubric , quality assurance , dilemma , quality (philosophy) , instructional design , engineering management , process (computing) , online course , computer science , higher education , engineering ethics , medical education , engineering , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics education , multimedia , political science , medicine , philosophy , operations management , external quality assessment , epistemology , law , operating system
One of the dilemmas faced by today’s faculty is assuring quality in online courses. As one solution to that dilemma, Quality Matters (QM), a program of MarylandOnline, built a rubric of design standards informed by existing research literature and best practices. The rubric was implemented within a faculty-centred, peer review process in which colleagues share their expertise to facilitate course design improvements and to achieve an established level of quality in online course design. This article will describe the basic tenets and processes of QM as an inter-institutional quality assurance program for online learning.