May 22nd, 2012
Intriguing, and rather gratifying….

… (if, like UD, you’re currently teaching a Udemy course with 548 students) column about MOOCs in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

May 21st, 2012
Nicholas Leman, on MOOCS.

In the New Yorker.

The top schools, led by Stanford, are now aggressively exploring online education, which they had previously left to the for-profits. This doesn’t mean that they will suddenly start granting degrees online to ten or a hundred times as many students; instead, they are likely to offer a second, cheaper (or even free) tier of education that will only enhance the lifelong value of their traditional, in-residence degrees.

May 16th, 2012
The next installment in my series on teaching a MOOC…

… is now up at Inside Higher Education.

May 14th, 2012
I’ve just officially hit 500…

… students in my Faculty Project lecture series on poetry.

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UD thanks her sister for telling her.

May 8th, 2012
The seventh installment…

… of my blog series on teaching a MOOC is now up at Inside Higher Education.

May 3rd, 2012
Brooks on …

MOOCs.

The best American colleges should be able to establish a magnetic authoritative presence online.

May 2nd, 2012
Harvard MOOCs Too.

Via Inside Higher Education: Harvard has just announced it’s collaborating with MIT to offer its own MOOCs.

UD‘s MOOC now has four hundred and thirty students. So it’s not “massive” (Massive Open Online Courses) yet – as in some MOOCs that have tens of thousands of students. Maybe she should call her poetry course a BOOC (Big Open Online Course) until it’s truly massive.

April 26th, 2012
My MOOC Just Passed Four Hundred

Or, if you’re just joining us, my Massive Open Online Course on poetry has just enrolled four hundred people from around the world.

Onward and upward. This Saturday, I’m recording a lecture on Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, At the Fishhouses.

April 21st, 2012
My latest lecture on poetry…

… can be found here (you need to register for the course). It’s about Sylvia Plath’s poem, The Moon and the Yew Tree. I wrote about it earlier on this blog, here.

April 19th, 2012
My latest MOOC post at Inside Higher Ed…

… is now up, here. And my latest Udemy Faculty Project lecture on poetry is here.

April 15th, 2012
I’ve been busy recording my latest Udemy lecture…

… on poetry today, a discussion of Paul Valéry’s The Graveyard by the Sea. Feel free to register for the whole series.

April 9th, 2012
MOOC V —

— the fifth in my series of Inside Higher Ed columns about what it’s like to teach a MOOC, is here.

April 8th, 2012
My fifth Faculty Project lecture on poetry…

… will shortly be available. It’s a close reading of Sunday Morning, by Wallace Stevens.

My fifth in a series of posts at Inside Higher Education about doing a MOOC will also be published soon. I’ll link to it.

April 1st, 2012
My Fourth Faculty Project Lecture on Poetry…

… “The Poet on Poetry,” is now available. Registration for the course is free. Give it a whirl.

March 30th, 2012
Snapshots from Home

The people at the Faculty Project
have created an image for
UD‘s course on poetry.

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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
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It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
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There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
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You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
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Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
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University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
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[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
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University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
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