BIO

Bethany Simunich, Ph.D.
Vice President of Innovation and Research, Quality Matters
Email: bsimunich@qualitymatters.org

Dr. Bethany Simunich is the Director of Research and Innovation at Quality Matters (QM), an international non-profit dedicated to quality online learning at all levels of education. In this role, Dr. Simunich leads efforts to help institutions, faculty, and staff make data-driven, research-based decisions to implement online quality assurance and promote online student success. In her twenty years in higher education, she has held faculty roles for both in-person and online teaching and also worked in educational technology, instructional design, and faculty development for online learning. As an online learning administrator, Dr. Simunich has both created and managed processes and teams for online instructional design and faculty development for online teaching. As an online learning researcher, her focus includes the creation and implementation of online quality assurance processes, presence in the online classroom, online student and instructor self-efficacy and satisfaction, and learning achievement in online courses. Dr. Simunich earned her doctoral degree from The Ohio State University and two Master’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.