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Just wanted to add a clarification for stipend payments. For QM managed reviews, QM pays the chair of the review $350 and the other two reviewers $150.
Melissa Poole
Quality Matters Course Review Manager
Do you plan to organize anything in EU?
Regards,
Luca Renelli
Good morning.
What is the stipend paid to external reviewers for an institutionally-managed official review? Are there any other costs to the institutions associated with these reviews?
Thanks!
Laurie Posey, GWU
Laurie,
QM pays $150 to reviewers and $350 to external reviewers. This is the compensation for QM-managed reviews; we don't dictate the fees paid in subscriber-managed reviews. This relationship is between the institution and the reviewers. We expected the duties of the reviewers to be the same in both types of reviews; however, QM does ask Master Reviewers to select their review team in QM-managed reviews. This task is typically is handled by IRs in subscriber-managed reviewers. A number of institution, therefore, pay Master Reviewers $250.
Is there specific information available that would detail the relationship between QM and accreditation standards.
With the initial editions of the QM Rubric, Dr. Ron Legon, QM Executive Director and Provost Emeritus from University of Baltimore, prepared the following document to map the QM Rubric standards with accreditation standards "Comparison of the Quality Matters Rubric to Accreditation Standards in Distance Learning."
For a copy of this document, please email Grace Hall.
Although there is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, the Quality Matters Program provides a Course Format Chart that identifies differences between online, blended, and F2F courses. Within the category of blended courses, Quality Matters further describes two different types depending on whether more or less than 50% of the course occurs in the F2F environment.
Even in the case where more than 50% of the course occurs F2F, Quality Matters requires that the following material be available online if the course is to be evaluated as a quality blended course:
All content, materials, activities, handouts, support materials, etc. included in the face-to-face meetings should also be made available in the online classroom or via an electronic course portfolio. Notable exceptions to this include drama, movie, speech, and lab courses.