[Oer-community] Is MIT thinking of putting its OCW material behind a pay wall?

[Theo Lynn]

Is this what this forum is about?

Someone subsidises all OER development. Acknowledging this is not inconsistent with education for all.

Theo

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On 11 Oct 2010, at 19:05, Tim Cook <timothywayne.cook at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> So I take away from your comments below that you are okay with having a
> society that encourages educational access based on economic status? 
> 
> Regards,
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:36 -0400, Steve Foerster wrote:
>> Talat wrote:
>> 
>> << Education should be part of the public expenditure and if it is not
>> possible for the public sector, private sector education should not be
>> seen as any other corporate sector like software, transport, telecom ect. >>
>> 
>> We disagree.  Education is an important service, but it's not something
>> that's magically immune to the laws of economics.  It's not like
>> physical infrastructure where the argument can be made that it's a
>> natural monopoly.  Since it's capable of supporting many different
>> providers in the same space, education is actually better provided by a
>> competitive marketplace than by a centralized bureaucracy.
>> 
>> 
>> << Many corporate sectors thrive for profit only to be giant, and
>> indirectly want to rule or influence ruling, ignoring socio-economic
>> aspects, which ultimately creates social inequity and disharmony. They
>> then came to a new term CSR and they try to compensate through CSR. But
>> private sector education should be the opposite. They should work for
>> social equity and thus thrive for social harmony and profit for survival
>> only if public sector fails to support education. >>
>> 
>> There's nothing at all wrong with a profit motive in education, or the
>> profit motive in general.  Indeed, the problem I see with those sorts of
>> corporations is that they are too closely intertwined with the state and
>> thus have the ability to exploit political power instead of actually
>> being competitive.
>> 
>> -=Steve=-
>> 
>> 
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