Bowling Green, Ky. - The WKU Office of Distance Learning, in partnership with the Kentucky Virtual Campus, is joining Quality Matters™ (QM), an inter-institutional online course peer review program.

Reviews are performed, on a voluntary basis, by three-member teams of online faculty and Instructional Designers from QM participating schools in Kentucky.

Peer review teams provide suggestions to online instructors that will help improve and ensure the quality of online courses. Reviews are expected to begin during the spring 2007 term.

Each three-member online course review team is made up of a team chair and two other faculty members or instructional designers. One person on the team will be from the same discipline as that of the reviewed course and at least one team member will be from the course’s home institution.

After completing the review, the teams input scores and useful recommendations into a database which generates a report for the faculty member whose course is reviewed. When the course meets QM review standards the faculty member will be supplied a “QM Recognized” logo to add to the online course.

The Quality Matters™ project is a self-funded program which offers peer reviewer training and access to an online database and rubric to subscriber schools across the U.S. For more information on Quality Matters™ visit their website at www.qualitymatters.org.

For more information about online course peer reviews at WKU, contact Pam Wilson at pam.wilson@wku.edu or (270) 745-2106.

Distance Learning is a unit of the Division of Extended Learning and Outreach (DELO). DELO delivers quality credit and non-credit educational opportunities to individuals, organizations and the public using flexible and accessible formats. For more information on DELO, go to www.wku.edu/delo.

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For information, contact Bill Oldham at (270) 745-1926.

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