Some Profit From The Provision Of Open Courseware

The OpenCourseWare Consortium, which grew out of the M.I.T. project, now includes over 200 institutions worldwide and offers materials from more than 13,000 courses. OpenCourseWare makes it possible to profit from some of the content that comes with $50,000 annual tuition at an Ivy League school, without paying that hefty price tag. Still, an entire ecosystem of commercially oriented organizations, like the open course aggregator Academic Earth, has sprung up around open course materials.  Indeed, that raises a key question: how can professors and universities afford to give away the course materials that are their very livelihood? Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/education/31iht-riedopen.html?ref=education