%0 Conference Proceedings %A Vignare, Karen %A Brosch, Sharon Biederman %C United States, North America %D 2014 %I The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) %K open education resources %K online learning %K OER %K no cost materials %K innovation %K business model %P 1-6 %T Making a difference: Choose OER to lower costs and optimize learning %U http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Paper_71.pdf %X The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) has initiated a process to match all course learning outcomes and competencies with open educational resources. UMUC is the largest non-profit public online university in the U.S. It has committed to finding OERs for all undergraduate courses by 2015 and graduate courses by 2016. The scale of this undertaking is unlike any others in the OER movement. The adoption and scaling process provides a model for other like-minded institutions %8 04/2014 %* does not apply %> http://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/archive/Paper_71.pdf