Quality Matters Certified Courses

SJSU Quality Matters Certified Courses and Peer Reviewers

Quality Matters promotes a peer review process and provides a database of qualified QM Peer Reviewers eligible for assignment to a peer review team. Courses that successfully meet the QM Rubric Standards in an official (Subscriber-Managed or QM-Managed) course review are eligible for QM recognition. San Jose State University has subscribed to the services offered by Quality Matters.

Certified Courses

Course Certification

If you are interested in having your course certified, please read about preparing for a Quality Matters Course Review, which provides course preparation guidelines and the steps in an Official QM-Managed Course Review. Prior to completing a course review application, please contact SJSU eCampus at [email protected] for next steps for a SJSU QM Course Review. 

An official course review must meet the following criteria:

• Use of current QM Standards
• Review of online or blended (hybrid) course
• Three-person peer review team
• All reviewers are eligible QM-Certified Peer Reviewers
• At least one reviewer is external to the institution submitting the course
• At least one reviewer is designated as subject matter expert
• Team Chair is a QM Master Reviewer

QM Peer Reviewers

The following San Jose State University Faculty Members have successfully completed peer-reviewer training in “Applying the QM Rubric.” This course provides an in-depth experience using the respective instruments and objective-based examples to support reviewing and informing online courses. They have demonstrated skills at using the QM objectives to rate elements of a course and writing helpful recommendations.

Megan Chang
GE Gao
Susan Gordon
Yingjie Liu
Ravisha Mathur
Debbie Weissmann