In the most recent issue of the MIT Faculty Newsletter, one of my colleagues (Mary P. Rowe) reports on the experience of publishing her course materials on MIT’s open courseware site:

“In addition, I am also happy about the fate of my own intellectual property. I am suddenly getting more credit, including acknowledgment for a number of my ideas from the past. So one happy outcome was that I found one can actually get more recognition for one’s work via OCW. … (Of course this new recognition is sometimes expressed in quixotic terms – “you mean you came up with that concept?”)”