Adopting OER: A Case Study of Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Innovation

By leveraging investments in open educational resources across institutions, universities can both increase the return on investment beyond the initial adoption and benefit their students at scale. Creative use of OER offers tangible benefits in student success and retention, resulting in measurable performance increases. Faculty collaboration, investment in professional development, and the ability to adapt to local conditions are keys to supporting OER adoption at the college level. Sometimes, educational problems are best tackled from outside the institutional hierarchy in spaces that allow innovation to happen.