Paradigm shift

Interesting - I wrote this in 2020: "Interesting - I wrote this in 2012. Now in 2020 I'd say paradigm shift, but it's a very slow burn.

MOOCology is the study of MOOCs, and its main method is participant observation. You sign up for and participate in Massive Open Online Courses not so much to study the subject, as to study the method. Along the way you get to meet a superabundance of interesting people and you get to learn a lot of fascinating stuff. But the real value for me is in observing the way the new metier seems to question, transcend, bypass, nullify, disarm and maybe eventually even destroy the institution. Are we seeing a paradigm shift, or simply another technology-driven fad? 

Then along comes OpenAI.