Research and Best Practices
Michigan Virtual works to develop materials for both students and educators based on diligent research and industry leading practices to ensure student success.
Michigan Virtual works to develop materials for both students and educators based on diligent research and industry leading practices to ensure student success.
Our instructional design team understands that learning online is a different experience than learning in traditional environments. We focus our efforts on developing lessons and experiences that will engage students, generate interest and help them reach their learning goals. We apply four areas of instructional design and research when developing our strategies.
Quality Matters is an internationally-recognized quality assurance organization dedicated to promoting and improving the quality of online courses. Based on feedback received through the Quality Matters course evaluation process, Michigan Virtual instructional designers have developed a set of practices, tools, templates, procedures and guidelines that support general standards described by the Quality Matters K-12 Secondary Standards for Online and Blended Courses.
The standards focus on the following areas:
Having and applying our set of best practices based on these standards helps ensure that the learning experiences we create are focused on promoting student success and having a good online learning experience.
