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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Open Courseware? by porknubbins on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @04:24PM (#32403766)
Yeah that seems like a likely explanation, but still if there was a push to start recording and publishing courses (beyond the level of individual professors who sometimes put their courses online) they must've had dedicated staff at some point.
Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Open Courseware? by just_boost_it on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @04:54PM (#32404157)
It's hard to keep staff once a project is "done". Even if they wanted to stay, departments have budgets and its hard to justify a salary for someone to maintain free access to lectures. Based in the general lack of uniformity on university websites, I wouldn't be shocked if at least some of the people cobbling them together were students working part time who eventually just move on to the next stage of their careers.