anyone else trying to put courses online, is not the technology needed to record it, it's the time wasted getting clearance to use copyrighted information from the big publishers. The serials crisis http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/c\\... illuminates the publishers' stranglehold in all areas of academic freedom and openness, but though they've cut some deal with MIT (for the PR, one suspects), until the unis and the academics wise up this will continue. An alternative is students filming their own lectures on their mobiles and sharing it themselves. Let the publishers sue the students. For those looking for more background on this I highly recommend Clayton Christensen's "Disrupting Class, How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns". With a couple of co-authors, Christensen, the HBS prof who authored "Innovator's Dilemma", takes a ground up approach at what it will take for technology-based solutions to challenge the education status quo. Unlike the focus here on higher education, Disrupting Class is primarily concerned with pre-K -- 12 but many of the same opportunities apply. And those who say that the unions will never let it happen, I wouldn't be so sure -- Obama and Duncan appear to be little concerned with the unions and the new $4B Race to the Top initiative is a tremendous tool to spark innovation. Remember that the unions fought aggressively (to the point of filing lawsuits in NV against Obama's campaign) for Hilary in the primaries; Obama is not their guy. And while he isn't as reform-minded as, say,