QM

Abstract

This paper examines distance education and the opportunities provided by it. It also introduces Quality Matters as an online teaching license organization, and how this organization works. The paper demonstrates how the standers and methods of QM rubric work by analyzing an online course in King Khalid University. In addition this paper focuses on the importance of quality teaching in online course and qualifications of online course designing .The information drawn upon in this research is mainly taken from secondary data including sources on distance learning, Quality Matters standards and curriculum design.   To demonstrate the principle of QM in online teaching, this paper took the opportunity of analyzing and review the implementing of the QM rubric on an online course in King Khalid University in Abha Saudi Arabia. For this paper we chose an online course from the preparation year “011 ENG “ as a sample of an online course designed according to QM standards. The focus of this paper is to provide an insight on the importance of course designing in online courses and the impact it has on distance learning education.

Key Words: Curriculum design -distance learning – Quality Matters