The University has set up a process to decide case by case what is permissible, but the lines are tough to draw.
"It may be O.K. to present a few lectures on the Internet or to put some of your course materials on the Internet," Thompson says. "It is not okay to offer your Harvard courses at an online university."
Director of the Harvard University Library and Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53 says the University's guidelines give professors enough time to complete their required tasks.
"The regulations are a balance between what you owe to the University as a professor and the kind of flexibility that faculty need to carry out obligations to their professional lives," says Verba, who is also a member of the committee on outside activity.
FAS Dean for Research and Information Technology Paul C. Martin says he thinks Harvard has a well-established set of rules and policies.
"This is the one place that professors are supposed to do their face-to-face teaching. But no one would regard it as unethical for a Harvard professor to be used by students elsewhere as well," he says.
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