Idea?

Well, OK, it is an actual idea, so the real quesion is whether it is any good. Most ideas are not.

Anyway, I need to take at close, very close, look at the Quality Matters rubriic. As more than one person has noted to me that QM tends to focus on relatively low-level issues, some of which are so basic that they are probably not even worth researching. Well, suppose that is true. What would a set of guidelines, even a rubric, for online courses be like that went beyond that? Suppose we had ways of looking at what kinds of activities were used in the online course? How are they organized? Do they include key things such as Gagne's nine events and the ARCS model? Are there places where students' beliefs are challenged? What kinds of questions are asked in the discussions? And so on.

OK, it could be a good idea, so tomorrow I start looking at QM.