Helping you deliver on your online promise

With online learning, everyone has a goal. Learners need to improve and grow. You work to nurture them with well-conceived, well-designed, well-presented courses and programs. Our goal — as a non-profit, quality assurance organization — is to provide a system to help you deliver on that promise: with review, improvement and certification of quality.

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Research

Over 1000 studies: sorted, sifted, scrutinized.

Solid research is the foundation — and catalyst for improvement — of the QM Quality Assurance process.

Community

Learn, share, connect.

QM Conferences and resources give you access to the QM community — roughly 80,000 strong, with over 1,100 member institutions in the US and internationally.

RUBRICS & STANDARDS

The gold standard for courses, programs and more.

From general to specific, QM provides a pathway for benchmarking quality. Objectively. Repeatedly. Predictably.

QA & Peer Review

Robust, objective, expert input.

With 8,000 certified reviewers, our exclusive system puts you on track to reach quality assurance goals and improve student achievement.

Professional Development

Get in depth and maximize QM.

Strengthen your expertise with workshops and resources focused on improving quality. Broaden your skill set with courses for QM Roles.

Every Implementation Tells A Story

“I loved participating in the QM Colleague Program…it helps to talk with someone who has been through the process and knows what works.”

Diane Pisacreta from Saint Louis Community College, Professor

“Having our online programs Quality Matters certified will distinguish them in the marketplace where students have so many choices these days."

Garvey Pyke from UNC Charlotte, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning

"Since participating in the QM K-12 Reviewer Course, I have a much better grasp of the rubric, including a deeper understanding of each standard and any corresponding annotation."

Anthony White from Kodiak Island Borough School District, Statewide Virtual Content and STEM Program Coordinator

"It is always refreshing to attend a QM Conference. The enthusiasm and collaboration felt is contagious in a good way."

Maria Fernandez from California State University, Los Angeles

NEWLY RELEASED — Results from the third survey of chief online officers are available in the CHLOE 3: Behind the Numbers report. The third installment of The Changing Landscape of Online Education research project led by QM and Eduventures reveals new insights on institutional approaches to online learning and offers five models for understanding them.

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