Open-Source College?

Here's an example of a contemporary topic - open-source information - that leads directly to a philosophical discussion.

In yesterday's Wired Campus feature in the Chronicle of Higher Education, David Wiley offers his perspective on the value of 'open teaching' - that is, making course materials, readings, assignments, and even lectures freely accessible not only to students in the course, but to anyone at all on the web.

Read the article (and comments posted by readers!), then respond below. How do you balance considerations of fairness to paying students with what we might call the 'open-source ethos' - the presumption that information should be distributed as widely and freely as possible?