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Will free courseware remain free?
"Train the Trainer," which included live Webcasts as well as self-paced online courseware, cost around $1,600.
But some universities now want to adopt forms of proprietary courseware that actually lock out people from outside the university".
With this they can buy digital courseware, and make their own decisions about the technology they use in the classroom.
European universities moved relatively quickly to join the open courseware movement, putting thousands of lectures and course material online free.
But now the Hewlett Foundation is pushing its grant recipients to do more than just make courseware available.
The Carnegie Mellon Approach: Doing More The backers of free courseware acknowledge the benefit of self-enrichment.
Dr. Wiley says that models like P2PU address an important component missing from open courseware: human support.
They understood that in order to market courseware to top firms, they would need both the academic expertise and the brand name of the elite business schools.
Aggressive online marketplace pricing, digital direct courseware sales, OER (Open Education Resources) content, along with students' reluctance to purchase textbooks, is providing some headwinds for course material sales.
"The open-source courseware is there, from universities that have put their courses online, available to the public, free," Mr. Reshef said.
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