Building the Intentional University (eBook)

Minerva and the Future of Higher Education

Stephen M. Kosslyn, Ben Nelson (Herausgeber)

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2017
456 Seiten
The MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-34369-5 (ISBN)

Infos

How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century-how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized.The Minerva curriculum focuses on "e;practical knowledge"e; (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2017
• Co-Autor: Megan Gahl, Kara Gardner, James Genone, Robin Goldberg, Richard Holman, Neagheen Homaifar, Jonathan Katzman, Anne Kauth, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Sultanna Krispil, Ari Bader-Natal, Daniel J. Levitin, John Levitt, Rena Levitt, James Lyda, Ben Nelson, Matt Regan, Kenn Ross, Ayo Seligman, Z. Mike Wang, Eric Bonabeau, Judith Brown, Ian Van Buskirk, Teri Cannon, Norian Caporale-Berkowitz, Vicki Chandler, Joshua Fost
• Vorwort: Bob Kerrey
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• ISBN-10: 0-262-34369-X / 026234369X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-262-34369-5 / 9780262343695