Professors Peeved to Learn They Don’t Own What They Teach Online - Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report

Now, as online courses soar in popularity, a battle is beginning over who should own them. Though little noticed, it’s a fight that could change longstanding traditions about faculty control of classes they create, and influence the future and success of online higher education. Universities hope to make money off these courses, which can enroll thousands of paying students instead of the few hundred who can fit inside the largest brick-and-mortar lecture halls. But many faculty fear their work may be altered for the worse, or that universities will employ other, less-qualified people to teach them. http://nation.time.com/2014/03/01/online-courses-moocs-ownership/