Academia actually shot itself in the foot when most of its luminaries decided that teaching was commodity grunt work, with research being the real stuff that de

Academia actually shot itself in the foot when most of its luminaries decided that teaching was commodity grunt work, with research being the real stuff that determined a person's career. Research is important, but if you don't go out and teach people how to use what you discovered, they'll write it off as irrelevant, abstract wankery. This led (among other things) to society's reduced investment in academia/R&D, and MOOCs are throwing their "teaching is just a commodity" ideology right back in their collective face.