About the Student Success through OER Rubric
The Student Success Through OER Rubric is a comprehensive self-assessment tool designed to help colleges, universities, systems, and other higher education organizations examine how their open education practices support student success.
The Rubric provides a structured framework for reflection, planning, and continuous improvement. Administrators, instructors, staff, and students can use it to identify strengths, uncover opportunities for growth, and consider how OER initiatives align with institutional missions, resources, and student needs.
A Framework for Institutional Reflection and Action
The Rubric examines OER implementation through three interconnected perspectives:
Across these dimensions, users consider their current practices along four stages of engagement: Not Present, Beginning, Emerging, and Establishing. The goal is not simply to achieve a particular score, but to support thoughtful conversations about where an institution or system is today and where it may want to go next.
The Rubric can be used to:
The Student Success Through OER Rubric is a comprehensive self-assessment tool designed to help colleges, universities, systems, and other higher education organizations examine how their open education practices support student success.
The Rubric provides a structured framework for reflection, planning, and continuous improvement. Administrators, instructors, staff, and students can use it to identify strengths, uncover opportunities for growth, and consider how OER initiatives align with institutional missions, resources, and student needs.
A Framework for Institutional Reflection and Action
The Rubric examines OER implementation through three interconnected perspectives:
- Students: Availability, Awareness, Technology, and Student Voice
- Practitioners: Learning Design, Open Pedagogy, OER Development, and Practitioner Support
- Leaders: Assessment, Iteration, and Institutionalization
Across these dimensions, users consider their current practices along four stages of engagement: Not Present, Beginning, Emerging, and Establishing. The goal is not simply to achieve a particular score, but to support thoughtful conversations about where an institution or system is today and where it may want to go next.
The Rubric can be used to:
- Assess an institution’s or system’s overall approach to open education
- Evaluate the development and progress of a specific OER initiative or program
- Identify priorities for planning, investment, and improvement
- Bring together stakeholders with different roles and perspectives
- Track changes in OER practice over time
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Explore the Rubric
The Student Success Through OER Rubric is now available in Pressbooks, making it easier to read, navigate, share, and use online. The Pressbooks edition also provides multiple download formats for those who prefer to work with the resource offline.
About the Rubric
The Student Success Through OER Rubric is the second edition of the Equity through OER Rubric, originally developed by the DOERS community. This updated edition reflects emerging practices in open education, improves the usability of the original resource, and responds to the changing higher education environment.
The Rubric recognizes that institutions vary widely in their missions, structures, student populations, and local contexts. It is intended as a flexible tool rather than a prescriptive standard, helping users identify approaches that make sense within their own environments.
The Student Success Through OER Rubric was developed collaboratively by members of the DOERS community and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The Student Success Through OER Rubric is now available in Pressbooks, making it easier to read, navigate, share, and use online. The Pressbooks edition also provides multiple download formats for those who prefer to work with the resource offline.
About the Rubric
The Student Success Through OER Rubric is the second edition of the Equity through OER Rubric, originally developed by the DOERS community. This updated edition reflects emerging practices in open education, improves the usability of the original resource, and responds to the changing higher education environment.
The Rubric recognizes that institutions vary widely in their missions, structures, student populations, and local contexts. It is intended as a flexible tool rather than a prescriptive standard, helping users identify approaches that make sense within their own environments.
The Student Success Through OER Rubric was developed collaboratively by members of the DOERS community and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
