Examine Course Design Through the Eyes of a Learner

A well-designed course is more likely to engage learners and positively affect their performance. Using the QM Rubric and relevant review tools as a guide, you, your colleagues, or a team of QM-trained, experienced online instructors or course designers can evaluate the design of your online or blended course and ensure it meets QM Standards. When you’re ready to put a course through the review process, you’ll receive fresh ideas from colleagues who are interested in your course and can offer specific feedback in a positive tone that will help you to improve the quality of your course and create a more active learning experience for students.

Key Elements of Any Course Review

There are a few factors that will affect the structure of your course review process: the QM Rubric you select, the type of course you want to evaluate, and the type of review you want to conduct. For example, the members of a course review team will be different between a K-12 organization and an Higher Education (HE) organization. And an individual, Self-Review will not be structured the same as a collaborative review. While some subscriptions allow members to manage their own reviews for recognition and certification, publishers — and many other members — will work with QM to have courses reviewed for certification. Regardless of the review, however, the following elements are always part of the process:

1. Online or blended course to be reviewed: Access must be granted to those reviewing.
2. Rubric: A QM Rubric or a custom rubric created in My Custom Reviews (MyCR).
3. Review System: Tools located in the QM Course Review Management System (CRMS) or MyCR.
4. Reviewer(s): Number and role depends on the type of review being conducted. Official Review Team consist of QM-Certified Reviewers, one of whom is a Master Reviewer serving as Team Chair.
5. Final Report: An aggregation of reviewer findings.

Choose the Course Review Type That’s Right for You