What do physicists want students to learn? (it’s not what students want to learn!) What should students learn in the future? What, in fact, do they learn now – and remember upon graduation? What instructional activities do they learn this from, and what learning habits are helpful/hurtful? We must be able to answer these questions to have an informed discussion about teaching physics next year. Our recent research, much based on educational data mining, begins to answer these questions, and a new pedagogy begins to make students more expert. I’ll discuss ways to utilize open online courses to do research that improves student learning. Lastly, I’ll present a vision for sharing a future of research-based education.