Research & Best Practices

2022 CHLOE 7 Report

The seventh installment of the Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report, produced by Quality MattersTM and Eduventures®, offers an overview of the current state of online learning in higher education as well as insights into its future development.

2021 CHLOE 6 Report

See the results from the sixth survey conducted by QM and Eduventures as part of The Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) project. The report sheds new light on the future of online learning, while providing important insight into how colleges and universities responded to the COVID-19 pandemic as it evolved throughout 2020.

QM Digital Accessibility White Paper Series

This three-part digital accessibility white paper series shares the results of a 2019 survey conducted by Dr. Barbra Frey and Dr. Rae Mancilla. The first paper addresses institutional leaders and administrators. The second paper addresses faculty and instructional designers. The third paper addresses administrators, centers for teaching and learning, and offices of disability services. The research project provides an important follow up to research conducted in 2010 by Dr.Frey and Denise King.

2020 CHLOE 5 Special Report

See the results from the fifth survey conducted by QM and Eduventures as part of The Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) project. This was a special installment of the survey aimed at providing insight into how institutions responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and their plans for moving forward.

2020 CHLOE 4 Report

See the results from the fourth survey conducted by QM and Eduventures as part of The Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) project. The fourth installment of the multi-year project delved deeper into key online learning topics, including faculty preparation, OPM partnerships, online support services, enrollment trends, course design, and quality assurance practices.

Academic Rigor White Paper 3: Aligning Institutional Processes to Support Academic Rigor

In the third and final installment of our white paper series on academic rigor, invited author Andria F. Schwegler, Associate Professor of Psychology at Texas A&M University – Central Texas explores how institutional processes and support impact the application of academic rigor by faculty. Plus, discover what faculty can do to support academic rigor and how their behaviors, expectations, and interactions with students affect student experiences and academic performance.