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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 1,200 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.

Network with peers. Gain new ideas. Stay up to date on important topics. How? Join the QM Community this spring at a QM Regional Conference.

There are two options for 2020: April 2 - 3 in California or April 23 - 24 in New York.

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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

See QM at These Events

Digital Learning Annual Conference

February 24-26, 2020 in Austin, TX: DLAC
Chris Voelker, QM K-12 Director, will deliver four presentation / posters at the conference:
- One Course Review, Exponential Impact: Does Your Course Measure Up? Monday, February 24, 2020, from 5:00-6:30 pm
- You Need to be Thinking Accessibility All the Time. Tuesday, February 25, 2020, from 9:31-10:14 am
- Reviewers to the Rescue: Leaping Quality Challenges in a Single Bound. Tuesday, February 25, 2020, from 2:00-2:20 pm
- NSQ in View: Making the National Standards for Quality Online Learning Work for You. February 26, 2020, from 10:25-11:54 am
Melissa Poole, QM's Director of Quality Assurance, and Suzanne Scheffler, QM's K-12 Program Manager will be attending the conference and at our exhibit booth #512

Academic Globalization and Inter-Cultural Communication: AGIC 2020

March 10-13, 2020 in Orlando, FL: AGIC 2020
Yaping Gao, QM Senior Academic Director: Member Services & Partnerships, will present "Considerations and Findings in Glocalizing US-based Quality Standards for Digital Teaching and Learning across Non-English Speaking Communities in Culturally and Pedagogically Different Education Environments". She is also part of a plenary session on "Adopt, Adapt, and Apply US-based Quality Assurance Process and Accreditation Guidelines to Ensure Academic Integrity and Help Students Succeed."

INQAAHE Forum 2020

Higher Learning Commission (HLC) Conference