Quality Matters

QM VIDEO

The eLearning department at Tacoma Community College has created this well-produced 9 minute video about Quality Matters.

Click here to watch the video

What is Quality Matters?

Quality Matters (QM) is a faculty-centered, peer review process designed to certify the quality of online courses and online components.

Wrapping up the Quality Matters Pilot

The colleges successfully completed a two-year Quality Matters pilot. See the following document for a full history about Quality Matters.

Quality Matters Full History

2010 Quality Matters Plan

Each college will manage its own faculty training, rather than SBCTC managing cohorts of participants. SBCTC will pay for one faculty per college to attend a full series of QM training – up through QM Master Reviewer and QM Independent Trainer. QM Independent Trainers are eligible to facilitate face-to-face "Applying the QM Rubric" workshops at their institutions, and hence each local college will be able to develop their own capacity to train their faculty members through QM processes. See the following document for a summary of the QM services SBCTC eLearning provided in 2010.

2010 QM Services Plan

Process to Become a QM Master Reviewer and QM Independent Trainer

In order to become a QM Master Reviewer and QM Independent Trainer, you will need to go through a series of training phases. Please see the following diagram or linked PDF file that illustrates the QM training process.