After the creators of MOOCs have agreed that their invention has failed miserably to teach anything to anybody, I consider any discussion of “MOOCs are coming to eat our jobs” in my presence to be an act of direct sabotage and aggression against me.
In my first year as a college professor, I was constantly warned about those nasty people who’d try to steal my time for their useless service obligations and boring committees. Nothing even remotely similar has happened to me since, so I’m concluding that this is a non-existing danger. The real threat are people who can’t survive without a high degree of stress and generate it everywhere they go. Of course, such people all have a legacy of being victims of abuse but they turn into abusers themselves when they involve others in their efforts to create high-stress environments.
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