Mary Wells is the director of development for Quality Matters, a peer-based approach to quality assurance in online education. She is dedicated to distance learning as a means of expanding student access to quality educational programs and services. Ms. Wells recently retired from Prince George's Community College in Maryland where she had been the director of the distance learning center for five years. Before this position, she served as the distance learning director at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland for 20 years and spent one year as the executive director of MarylandOnline, Maryland’s distance learning consortium.