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It's a technical problem, more than a licensing problem.

perhaps as open-source software

that the content and content access should be free. Even the interactive experience, the computerized part would be free -- subsidized, actually -- but the services we provide are not free

I think it would be hard to make a lot of money with content in an age where content can easily go from one platform to another.

The remixing is a good point -- you certainly can take our videos

labeled "Standard YouTube License."

A MOOC licensed in this way would be on par with an OER textbook, like the ones from OpenStax College, which instructors can use as is or with their own modifications

the YouTube program is specific to CC BY -- the most permissive version

Udacity's Terms of Service specify that content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License, the most restrictive version

derivative works are expressly prohibited

Creative Commons Director of Global Learning Cable Green specifically recommends that CC NC ND works not be considered OER.

Udacity has gone farther in the direction of making these chunks of content independently available than the other big MOOCs

"Except as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms of Use, you may not copy, sell, display, reproduce, publish, modify, create derivative works from, transfer, distribute or otherwise commercially exploit in any manner the Class Sites, Online Courses, or any Content.

this is being treated as a gray area

Those aren't unreasonable terms for a startup trying to discover a business model, but neither are they OER.

with $15 million in financing

All of this could well add up to the future of higher education — if anyone can figure out how to make money.

We don’t want to make the mistake the newspaper industry did, of giving our product away free online for too long.

payment of licensing fees from other educational institutions that want to use the Coursera classes

charge $20, or maybe $50, for certificates of completion

charge corporate employers, including Facebook and Twitter, for access to high-performing students, starting with those studying software engineering

Antioch University’s Los Angeles campus had agreed to offer its students credit for successfully completing two Coursera courses, Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and Greek and Roman Mythology, both taught by professors from the University of Pennsylvania. Antioch would be the first college to pay a licensing fee

Coursera’s terms of use require that anyone using the courses commercially get a license, and because licensing would give colleges their own course Web site, including access to grades

Many educators predict that the bulk of MOOC revenues will come from licensing remedial courses and “gateway” introductory courses in subjects like economics or statistics

Mr. Rock, whose university has produced 16 Coursera courses, said each one costs about $50,000 to create, the biggest expenses being the videography and paying the teaching assistants who monitor the discussion forum