Over the past ten years or so, I've been involved in one way or the other in the arena of assessing quality in Online Learning. It was 2004 that I first learned about the work being done by Quality Matters during the first year of their FIPSE grant. As the Dean of Distance Learning at a Minnesota College at the time, I attended the ITC eLearning conference and brought back version one of the QM rubric. At a faculty retreat that spring, the online faculty at my college decided that they wanted to revise the rubric for local considerations, create their own faculty-driven review process, and pursue a voluntary quality review process for online courses at the school.
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Alastair Creelman