It shows that the author is only interested in preventing the free market from cutting into his position.

Well, it was rather bizarre way to close the article, which to me seemed like more of a summary about what MOOCs are and how Academia is threatened. He never really makes the case for why MOOCs are bad, which is why it was startling to me to hear his opinion against them at the end.

MOOCs have serious problems, no doubt, but declaring them to be a negative after less than four years is a bit much. And he doesn't even have a proper critique of MOOCs, he just dislikes them on the grounds that they're a danger to traditional universities.