Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS3) Collaborative

Since 2018, the University of Northern Colorado has gained momentum in our use of open educational resources and affordable practices for students, thanks in large part to efforts by UNC’s Affordable and OER (AOER) Committee. We realized we had not yet had in-depth discussions of how our AOER initiatives intersect with equity, and that our grass roots initiative, while successful, needed an assessment and a longer-term plan in order to move forward and evolve.

Our hope is that our work engaging with the DOERS3 Equity through OER rubric during 2023 and the related plans we created will solidify connections between OER and equity on our campus and ensure that concepts of equity are integrated into our OER initiatives. We want the connection between equity and OER to be clear to our campus community and show how the OER work we do is a benefit to students and instructors.