The Quality Matters Rubric is a set of 8 general standards and 41 specific standards used to evaluate the design of online and blended courses. The Rubric is complete with annotations that explain the application of the standards and the relationship among them. A scoring system and set of online tools facilitate the evaluation by a team of reviewers.
The instrument is based on the E-xcellence manual containing the benchmark statements, with the criteria and indicators. In the guide you can find the criteria and indicators. The structure of the instrument is identical to the sections in the guide and are organised into six sections.
The scope of the current work is to better understand what additional dimensions – competences, knowledge and understanding – are brought to education when technology is used as the enabler of learning. We also believe that it is essential that this work on e-learning is connected and collaborative, that it is seen as part of the ‘family of quality’ in education and that it should not take place in isolation.
This paper follows from the preceding paper on the common quality framework for e-learning. It focuses upon the pedagogic aspects of the framework and articulates a set of ten core principles which express, in an economic and elegant fashion, the underpinning values that can apply to a range of expressions of e-learning (whether in the face-to-face classroom, or online, or both), and be meaningful in the point of view of a range of audiences – designers, teachers and learners. They relate directly to six of the elements in Becta’s common framework for the quality of e-learning described above, namely: curriculum fit; content design; planning; learning; assessment and teaching.