OER Knowledge CloudConference Paper20102010/09Tebbens, WouterMegías, DavidDavid, JacovkisLex, Bijlsmaopen source softwareopen sourceOpen Educational Resourceseducationbusiness modelsSpainengUOC, OU, BYUThe decision to publish educational materials openly and under free licenses brings up the challenge of doing it in a sustainable way. Some lessons can be learned from the business models for production, maintenance and distribution of Free and Open Source Software. The Free Technology Academy (FTA) has taken on these challenges and has implemented some of these models. We briefly review the FTA educational programme, methodologies and organisation, and see to which extent these models are proving successful in the case of the FTA.yeshttp://hdl.handle.net/10609/4850http://hdl.handle.net/10609/4850Tebbens.pdfBarcelona, Spain