2-QM Quality Matters 2025 Sole Source Letter.pdf
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This document is a Sole Source Provider letter from QM Quality Matters, Inc. dated January 1, 2025, asserting the company's unique position as the only online quality assurance provider for educational course reviews and professional development. QM Quality Matters offers a comprehensive, integrative tool kit specifically designed for quality standards and reviews in online and blended courses across higher education, K12, and Continuing Professional Education sectors. The company provides a subscription that grants access to proprietary Quality Matters Rubrics, associated tools, and a membership community of over 1,300 educational organizations.
The letter emphasizes the organization's distinctive services, including professional development courses like "Applying the QM Rubric" and reviewer certification programs based on copyrighted rubrics. QM Quality Matters distinguishes itself through a unique course review process centered on trained, independent peer reviewers using a proprietary course review management system. Only their certified reviewers can conduct course design reviews, which focus on improving and certifying quality in online and blended educational environments. The company is the sole source for QM Rubric Workbooks and offers a specialized review approach not available from other course evaluation services.
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January 1, 2025
RE: Sole Source Provider
To Whom it May Concern:
This letter is to confirm that QM Quality Matters, Inc. (Quality MattersTM ) is the only online quality assurance provider that provides a turnkey, integrative tool kit designed to provide quality standards and related publications, professional development, and peer and practitioner reviews for online and blended courses and programs using the Quality Matters Rubrics. The Quality Matters subscription, trainings and course reviews are a unique service offering as described below:
• The Quality Matters subscription provides access to the Quality Matters Rubrics and associated tools, along with a membership community of more than 1300 higher education, K12, and Continuing and Professional Education organizations as well as Publishers. These subscription benefits are unique to Quality Matters.
• The Quality Matters professional development, including the Applying the QM Rubric and reviewer certification courses, are based on the copyrighted QM Rubrics. Only Quality Matters provides this professional development track to develop and certify QM course reviewers.
• The Quality Matters course review process integrates, in a fundamental way, the Quality Matters
Rubrics.
• Quality Matters is the only source for QM Rubric Workbooks that support the review process.
• The Quality Matters course review is a unique process that is centered on a team of peer reviewers of online course design. To Quality Matters' knowledge, no other course evaluation service provides this type of course review from a trained, independent review team focused on improving as well as certifying quality in online and blended course design.
• Only Quality Matters’ trained and certified reviewers may conduct such reviews using a proprietary and sophisticated course review management system to ensure the integrity and increase the consistency of the review process.
If you need any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us at
(866)851-4984.
Sincerely, Deb Adair
Chief Executive Officer
QM Quality Matters, Inc.
1997 Annapolis Exchange Parkway Suite 300
Annapolis, MD 21402
866-851-4984
| 2025-01-03T15:13:08-0500 | |
| Deborah Adair |
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