Birmingham City University in the U.K. is going to start offering a one-year MA in “Social Media.” What exactly is that, you wonder? It’s learning how to do Facebook, podcasts, and so on. The education establishment tries to offer at considerable expense the kind of learning that teenagers readily pick up without sitting in a classroom. Killer comment by a 20-year-old student interviewed: “Virtually all the content of this course is so basic it can be self-taught.”