So the MOOC Bubble has gone POP! and now everything is breathing a big sigh of relief because the status quo has won and we can all smile happy thoughts and life goes on and all of the sooth sayers and witchfinder generals can laugh at their silly hats and masks.

Till next time.

Because, like any barn door whose wind favouring banding ability has been highlighted, the slightest breeze, the merest waft of a nearby branch, the fart of a kebabandcurrystomached squirrel inching home is likely to have the door prancing and rejoicing in the latest gust from the valley.

A reverse charge of the light brigade, where death does not ride into the valley, but is instead emitted in random pulses like maybe an AVALANCHE – HELLO PEARSON – said valley is treated as if it is some Delphic Oracle prodigy (you can bet it plays the violin) with a list of talents so long that we can’t possibly seek providence of them. Nooooooo! Just believe it. It made a cool phone once.

So as Coursera logs on to venture capital dating sites looking to meet some new undertaxedbeastwithtwobacks, look at what is next at the bar, whose the next table at the speed dating Gartner style hypehopegropedopelovefest. It’ll be there. It might not have winked at you yet, it might not have perfected a chat up line. But it WLTM (Note, WLTM is “would like to meet” – not “Will lose thirty million”). Whereas poor journos desperate to not rehash a press release will be swept along in their charms, and investors (the dragons of the title) would instead logically go “What is your business model?”. And stood up in the bar they’ll say “we are waiting for it to turn up” which is either a belated amour, or their parents waiting to collect them. I suspect it’s their parents.

However, Friedman and his THEroes some how didn’t see the lack of model as a problem, just the need for a solution that justified their factual fumblings in the dark. So like pop band fainting teens we’ve been presented with a revolution, which turns out to be, at best, an iteration, and not even a step on. So, now thanks to the journalist noise, the deafening echo chamber made from the inability to go “where is your business model?” we’ve sort of promised the world we can educate them, and it seems erm, we can’t.

We have to ask ourselves a lot of questions, because some people never asked 1 question.