Benefitting from the Quality Matters Experience

While engaging in QM professional learning experiences and pursuing QM standards is not a requirement for tenure or a part of our evaluation process, both opportunities serve you, your students, and Daemen College very well. For instance: 

• Course alignment ensures that learning experiences are coherent, thoughtfully scaffolded, and attentive to the course and lesson level objectives. When alignment is tight, learning is rewarding, and performance is typically higher.

• The Quality Matters process engages instructors, course designers, subject matter experts, the review team, and students alike in a collaborative and highly collegial process that results in better course design. No one is in the work alone but rather--learning, growing, and dividing the workload together. 

• Quality Matters supports all instructors and our review teams through a variety of professional learning opportunities that serve to guide and sustain improvement. 

• The Quality Matters Standards-based design approach enables course builders and instructors to name and then notice the finer elements of high quality courses. This enables all of us to pinpoint our individual and systemic strengths and then, develop the tools, resources, and support mechanisms necessary to respond to very specific needs.

• Each Quality Matters experience not only honors but celebrates diverse perspectives, experiences, and practices. There are many ways to meet each QM standard, and each time we create space for collaboration, our collective toolkit grows. 

• Quality Matters sustains a global reputation for their work in the field. Our affiliation and work toward accredited course design distinguishes Daemen College as a leader in online course design and learning.

Our Internal Review Process

The internal review process begins when a Course Representative informs EPC/QOnEC of the existence of an online course that is ready for review. The process depicted below is then set in motion, and it is typically completed within 2-4 months, depending on the availability of each review team member. You may click on the image below to listen to a description of this process.