| Institution | Project | Number of courses | Major financing | Business plan options |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale U. | Open Yale Courses (http://oyc.yale.edu) | 15, with plans to release 21 more | Roughly $3-million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Foundation and university support, commercial partnerships. |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu) | 1,940 | $14-million from the Hewlett foundation, $11-million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, roughly $10-million from MIT | The NPR model: Web-site requests for donations, e-mail solicitations,corporate sponsorships; university money |
| Carnegie Mellon U. | Open Learning Initiative (http://www.cmu.edu/oli) | 12 | $5.65-million from the Hewlett foundation | Charging small fees when students at other universities are assigned these materials in formal courses; offering courses as instructor-led, online-only summer classes for Carnegie Mellon credit |
| U. of California at Irvine | UC Irvine OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.uci.edu) | 42 | $977,000 from Hewlett, $200,000 from the Boeing Company; $409,000 from the university | Click-to-enroll model that pushes people from free materials without credit to credit-bearing courses that cost money. |
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