Barbara Frey received the Quality Matters Directors’ Award for Exceptional Service during a Nov. 3 virtual conference for her extraordinary contributions to quality assurance efforts with online and/or blended education. Dr. Frey has spent nearly two decades as instructional designer for the Teaching Center and its predecessor, the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education.

Quality Matters is a leader in quality assurance for online education. In the early 2000s, it became one of the first organizations to standardize and certify online courses.