Actually teaching on-line course is, at some schools distinguished from developing such courses. Some institutions have created development teams and in these cases the course will become the property of the institution. The institution gets the royalties, and instructors give up their claim to the course. At Montgomery College, The Center for Teaching and Learning gave release time for faculty development and for mentoring. MC has also created an Institutional Technology Unit in which an ad hoc committee looks at these issues from both the faculty and administrative point of view.
Some institutions pay faculty on a percentage of their salary, based on seniority.
These are but a few of the ways institutions have responded to their need for faculty efforts to redesign and create courses for on-line delivery. As David Sumler pointed out, efforts to evaluate remuneration methods will ultimately help all institutions avoid exploitation of faculty. In addition, we may wish to comment and make recommendations based on our responses to Maryland On-Line.