Need some language and rationale for including QM certified courses in a grant or Request for Proposal? This article offers examples and guidance to grant and proposal writers who want to ensure vendor (publisher) courses meet accepted, national quality standards - specifically - the QM certification mark.

Virtual South Carolina used QM to provide faculty with insight into online teaching styles and a perspective for the direction of new course review, design and revision process.

When a few of the Ohio Educational Service Centers were looking for standards and professional development options for online learning, QM was singled out for the quality of its professional development.

The search for a stronger online course quality assurance process for Michigan led the Michigan Virtual University and its Research Institute to QM.

Georgia Virtual School(GaVS) talks about using QM improve the quality of their courses by leveraging QM professional development and using the QM Course Review Management System (CRMS)

IDEAL New Mexico discusses a statewide collaboration with New Mexico Districts and Schools offering online courses.

Scoring the Scorecards

Florida International U explores whether redesigning courses according to best practices actually leads to improvements for faculty members and students.

The Ohio Quality Matters Consortium offers insight into engaging and energizing faculty participants in the Higher Education Applying the Quality Matters Rubric workshop.

Troy University's distance learning initiative, eTroy, discusses using Quality Matters not only for the peer-review process and professional development, but they also are using QM to establish a mentoring program for new online faculty.

Notre Dame of Maryland University was working to standardize its quality assurance efforts. Their work with Quality Matters provided faculty with what its like to be an online learner while also learning the pedagogical nuances of online teaching.