The Oak National Academy will consider allowing private companies to sell its lessons on for profit.
Any potential move could put Oak at odds with its former owner, who had pledged nobody would be able to profit from the new body.
The organisation, now a government quango, has also said it will restrict its content to UK-based users only to support the “growing curriculum market”, and will signpost “alternative” offers amid a legal row.
Oak has today launched an £8.2 million procurement exercise for thousands of new digital resources and curriculum materials.