Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008 | Readings. OpenCourseWare economics in the New York Times. In As Colleges Make Courses Available Free Online, Others Cash In the New York Times writes about how universities are funding OpenCourseWare programs as well as how businesses have sprung up around CC licensed Open Educational Resources (OER) from such programs. Regarding the latter, our CEO is quoted: On a philosophical level, the idea of making money from something available free might seem questionable. But Joi Ito, chief executive of Creative Commons, which issues the licenses defining user rights to most OpenCourseWare materials, supports the mixing of free and for-profit: “I think there’s a great deal of commercial infrastructure that needs to be created in order for this to be successful,” Mr.
Ito said: “It can’t all just be free.” As readers steeped in knowledge of free culture/open content (and before it free and open source software) will recognize, this means three things. First, sharing does not preclude making money. Third, free can refer to price and freedom. Education: Academic Earth Aggregates Lectures from MIT, Harvard, Yale, and Others. Technology Review: The Year Online. Free Online Course Materials | Courses.