QM Certified Courses

San Jose State Quality Matters Certified Courses

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: BIOL-10: The Living World
  • • Instructor: Mary Poffenroth
• Course: COMM-101C: Junior Seminar - Theorizing Communication 
  • • Instructor: Mary Anne Sunseri
• Course: ENGR-100W: Engineering Reports
  • • Instructor: Stacey Knapp
• Course: INFO-203 Online Learning Tools & Strategies
  • • Instructor: Debbie Faires
• Course: INFO-287-14 Seminar in Information Science
  • Instructor: Debbie Weissmann
• Course: INFO-287-11 Seminar in Information Science
  • Instructor: Debbie Weissmann

Interest in 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 ecampus@sjsu.edu 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