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". Gary Lopez, Executive Director at the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE), and his team think there's a promising middle ground between crowd-sourced Wikipedia-like free instructional resources and traditional publisher-centric product development and distribution. They've just finished developing an interesting example of this new-age product, an Algebra I package offered on a part free, part paid business model that they see as the future of educational publishing"

"Gary Lopez, MITE's Executive Director, whose educational publishing career spans commercial as well as OER experience, has an interesting perspective. He positions foundation-supplied capital as the seed for the heavy lifting required for creating rigorous OER instructional packages, sustained by institutional membership fees for a bundle of enterprise-level services. What we used to call a free trial, and what the digital world now speaks of as freemium, is morphing into a series of business strategies that give customers a free taste and then offer fee-based elements that enhance the value proposition. Let's look at some from the education arena. "