Non-profit offerings: Options expand for those who find paying a problem - FT.com

Connotea Imports 2012-03-12

Summary:

"High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e76e91a0-63a4-11e1-9686-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1ouEEdkpY Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides free and open access to video lectures and other materials for 35 non-credit courses taught by faculty at Yale. The OYC site had more than 3.5m unique visitors by the beginning of February 2012....High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e76e91a0-63a4-11e1-9686-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1ouEKKMXg Since 2006, the project has been funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which has donated nearly $4m. Diana Kleiner, founding director of OYC, confirms that it has just received the last portion of funding that will support the service until the end of this year. “We are always looking to make the project financially scalable. We continue to attempt to bring costs down without losing quality,” she says. In December 2011, a “donate” button appeared on the OYC website with a message encouraging people to support the project. Money has been coming in. OYC has also formed a partnership with Yale University Press. The plan is to convert the transcripts from a course into a printed book and an ebook. Professors who edit the books receive royalties and a percentage of Yale University Press’ profits will be shared with OYC. There are three titles due out in spring 2012...."

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e76e91a0-63a4-11e1-9686-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1ouDV7hRq

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ru.no oa.new oa.business_models oa.oer oa.books oa.courseware

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

03/12/2012, 09:14

Date published:

03/12/2012, 08:44