Your institution committed to quality.
The implementation is where it gets hard.
Practice Learning provides fractional QM Coordinator services, implementation strategy, and facilitation for small and mid-sized colleges and universities that are serious about quality but do not have the internal capacity to sustain it.
Sound familiar?
You adopted Quality Matters because you believe online courses should be excellent. You sent faculty to workshops. You ran a few course reviews. And then... it slowed down.Someone had to own the coordination. Nobody had time. Faculty were resistant. Administrators were stretched. The work that was supposed to improve student outcomes became one more thing on an already impossible list.Quality Matters even recommends that institutions designate a QM Coordinator for this reason. But at smaller and mid-sized institutions, that role often does not exist, or it exists in name only — assigned to someone who already has a full workload and no bandwidth to give the work what it actually needs.You do not have a capacity problem. You have a missing-piece problem.
This is where Practice Learning comes in.
Practice Learning provides the dedicated expertise and capacity your institution needs to move from quality commitment to quality practice — without the overhead of a full-time hire.As your fractional QM Coordinator and implementation partner, we work alongside your administrators and faculty to diagnose where implementation has stalled, design a realistic path forward, and facilitate the conversations that get people moving in the same direction.This is not generic consulting. Our founder spent a decade stewarding three editions of the QM Rubric Standards — which means we understand not just what the standards say, but why they are written the way they are, how they have evolved, and how to help your faculty and administrators connect the QM Rubric to what actually matters for their students.
How we work with institutions
Fractional QM Coordinator
For institutions that need ongoing implementation support without a full-time hire. We serve as your dedicated QM Coordinator on a part-time basis — managing your review program, supporting faculty, coordinating with QM, tracking progress, and keeping implementation moving forward month over month.
Implementation Strategy & Facilitation
For institutions that are stuck. We conduct a focused assessment of where your QM implementation stands, identify the barriers; cultural, structural, and logistical — and work with your leadership and faculty to design and facilitate a path forward. This can be a single engagement or an ongoing advisory relationship.
Professional Development
For institutions that need to build faculty capacity and engagement. We design and facilitate customized workshops for faculty and administrators, grounded in adult learning principles and the practical realities of your institution, that move people from awareness to action.
You are not just hiring a QM consultant. You are hiring the person who helped build what you are trying to implement.
Brenda Boyd, M.S. spent 14 years in senior leadership at Quality Matters, where she stewarded three editions of the QM Rubric Standards over a decade — shaping the frameworks that institutions across the country use to evaluate and improve their online and digital courses.She has worked with hundreds of colleges and universities at every stage of QM adoption: from institutions just getting started to those trying to revive a stalled program to those looking to scale what is already working. She understands the faculty dynamics, the administrative pressures, the budget realities, and the cultural barriers that make implementation hard — because she has been inside those conversations for 25 years.Practice Learning is built on a simple belief: quality is not a destination. It is a practice. And every institution — regardless of size, resources, or where they are in their quality journey — deserves a partner with the expertise to help them get there.
Brenda Boyd, M.S.
Founder
Practice Learning is an Academic Service Company member of Quality Matters
Practice Learning works best with:
Community colleges and open-access institutions committed to improving online course qualitySmall and mid-sized colleges and universities with an active or lapsed QM programInstitutions with a Director of Online Learning, Dean of Instruction, or VP of Academic Affairs who owns the quality agendaSchools that have invested in QM training but are not seeing sustained adoptionInstitutions that need QM Coordinator capacity but cannot justify a full-time hire
Ready to get unstuck?
Book a free 30-minute consultation and let's talk about where your institution is in its quality journey and what it would take to move forward. No pitch, no pressure — just a conversation with someone who has been in this work for a long time and genuinely wants to help.
Practice Learning LLC | Brenda Boyd, M.S. | [email protected]