The Quality Matters standards and rubric provide a road-map to developing and designing online, hybrid, and now remote courses so that students can more easily navigate their courses and locate essential elements and information. Specific parts of the rubric provide for making sure that key parts of the course design align for improved outcomes and student success, and others assure that students will have important course and institutional policies, procedures, and resources at their fingertips within their courses.
Research shows the reach of a QM course review or certification extends far beyond the course being certified. Here's how: