The Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS) Collaborative is a group of public higher education systems and organizations that are committed to supporting student success by promoting free, customizable open educational resources (OER). Launched in 2018, DOERS helps member organizations implement, scale, and sustain OER by advancing research and policy, sharing tools and learnings, and showing how OER can foster equity and student success.
DOERS positions member organizations to realize the promise of high-quality, accessible, and sustainable OER implementations to achieve equity and student success at scale. Leveraging the collective strength of the Collaborative, DOERS members build capacity to take established OER initiatives to scale and shape national and state innovation in the areas of OER research, data, policy, accessibility, equity and quality.
As a group, DOERS members believe in supporting student success through the implementation of free openly-licensed alternatives to high-priced, all-rights-reserved, instructional materials. We recognize that the choice of instructional materials remains the purview of the educators, and that OER are an increasingly viable option for educators seeking to prepare and curate relevant and engaging course materials.
In this presentation, participants will learn about DOERS and how systems are coming together to make an impact on student success, from research to capacity building, to tenure and promotion, and OER advocacy efforts.
