OERs and academics’ IP

Kundayi Masanzu’s Mail and Guardian opinion piece  “Academics lose out to online study” raises a crucial question as lecturers prepare to move their modules online: “Moocs have opened up the floodgates of knowledge dissemination and, at the same time, exposed the importance of clarifying knowledge ownership within tertiary institutions.” What is the fairest balance between the sharing of learning content, and commercial publication? Prof Caroline Ncube of UCT provides a helpful response to the question.