Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), distributed through systems like Class2Go, Coursera or Venture Lab, became quite popular in 2012.  Faculty or staff interested in offering a public online course should register their interest at http://bit.ly/StanfordFacOnlineCourse at least two months in advance of a potential launch date.  Normally, public courses will be launched once per quarter, subject to various considerations.  Faculty developing online courses will be asked to sign a Course Development Agreement (CDA) and should allow enough lead time to work out copyright, accessibility, and other issues.  Faculty creating MOOCs need to pay special attention to copyright concerns, as the issues can be complex, and rights that you might have obtained to post material on CourseWork or other local course management systems do not apply in these larger systems.  Similarly, the face-to-face teaching exemptions that allow you to use material in your classroom do not apply.  The Office of General Counsel has put together Online Course Copyright & Privacy Guidelines, which are available on this site.  (see Stanford Online Course Guidelines).