About Global Online Education

Global Online Education is an academic growth partner for colleges and universities. We license faculty-created online courses and help institutions build online programs that are academically excellent and financially sustainable.

Our mission

We help colleges and universities offer more high-quality online learning by connecting them with accomplished faculty, licensed courses and careful planning, so that new programs serve students well and last.

Our vision

A higher education landscape where any institution, whatever its size, can offer students excellent courses taught by the right expert, wherever that expert lives.

Our three foundations

  • Academic Excellence
  • Financial Sustainability
  • Global Opportunity

Read our philosophy and the seven principles in Our Palette

Leadership

Ruqqayya H. Maudoodi

Ruqqayya H. Maudoodi, Ed.D.

Founder and Lead Consultant

Ruqqayya is an educator and higher education consultant specializing in visual and performing arts education, curriculum innovation, and instructional technology. Her career spans K–12 art education, teacher education, and higher education leadership. As Director of Rutgers Arts Online at Rutgers University, her strategic leadership and fiscal stewardship contributed to growing annual revenue from $5.6 million to $10 million over five years.

As Assistant Dean of Online Programs at Manhattan School of Music, she spearheaded the development of an innovative online BFA degree completion program for professional performing artists. Working with the Office of Philanthropy, she helped secure a $150,000 capacity-building grant. She also introduced a custom AI tool (GPT) that reduced Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) portfolio development and preliminary review from months to days, supporting the evaluation of up to 90 credits toward degree completion.

In 2021, she founded Global Online Education, where she develops faculty-led online programs and strategic university partnerships that expand educational access, uphold academic excellence, and support sustainable academic growth.

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