Get online courses certified through Quality Matters

September 6, 2016

Quality Matters has certified a core MBA online course offered by Nicole Cundiff, interim chair of the business administration program at the School of Management.

The certification is part of an effort to enhance online course delivery for the mostly online MBA program.

Cundiff’s course, Organizational Theory for Managers (MBA617), was the first to be formally certified by QM through collaboration with the UAF eLearning & Distance Education design team.

“One can expect the collaboration with the eLearning team to be creative, productive and rigorous," said Kendell Newman Sadiik, an eLearning instructional designer.

QM has developed a widely respected set of standards for the design of effective online courses and a rigorous faculty peer-review process for applying these standards to existing courses. Through this process, reviewers provide instructors and instructional design teams with insights and recommendations that increase learner engagement, retention, satisfaction and achievement. More information about the organization can be found on the QM website.

Contact Chris Lott at chris.lott@alaska.edu or visit the eLearning website for more information about getting your own online course certified through QM.