He holds the Bonnie Westby Huebner Endowed Chair in Education and Technology, is a co-director of the Learning Technologies Media Lab, is a Laureate of the prestigious humanitarian Tech Awards, and is a fellow for the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment. Doering received his PhD in instructional systems and technology and a masters in geography. This mesh of technology and geography has motivated him to develop adventure learning – an approach to designing and developing online learning that has revolutionized how students learn and teachers teach within K-20 classrooms around the world. Doering is the PI and education director behind the GoNorth! Adventure Learning Series that has delivered education on sustainability and climate change to over 3 million students by dogsledding over 3,000 miles throughout the circumpolar Arctic from 2004 – 2010.