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MOST COURSES ARE NOT BORN DIGITAL: AN OVERVIEW OF THE QUALITY MATTERS PEER REVIEW PROCESS FOR ONLINE COURSE DESIGN Evangeline (Litsa) Varonis The explosion
of online course offerings has driven anxiety over quality. The
Quality Matters (QM) program was initiated in Maryland as a rubric
for peer review and certification of online courses and is now used
by institutions internationally, including consortia that share
resources. This paper will discuss benefits of and barriers to
online learning, summarize the emergence of QM in response to
concerns about quality, outline the QM higher education rubric,
explain how the collaborative QM peer review process facilitates
online course design and certification, report on the development of
a statewide consortium in Ohio, and explore future trends in online
courses. |
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