@George-

Thank you for your comment!

I agree about who funds things should benefit from them (though by extension perhaps public-funded tuition in the form of grants should require public service?!), and I also agree that academics do not make money from their publications (or rather from their journal publications), though books may be a different thing. This week’s open content was more about book publishing, I think (or at least as I experienced). As I think journal publishing is an entirely different issue, perhaps that would be a great topic of discussion, especially regarding indexing and using reviewed materials that are available in open journals (take that, SSCI!).

BTW, you are doing a great job lining up wonderfully engaging facilitators, and I think this attribute of the MOOC (which is open, though somebody has to be funding it, too . . .) is quite welcome in the area of sharing and expanding ideas in an open manner.

Jeffrey