Building the Intentional University - Minerva and the Future of Higher Education (Paperback)

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 "practical knowledge" (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.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The MIT Press
Release date:	August 2018
First published:	2017
Editors:	Stephen M. Kosslyn • Ben Nelson (Founder, Chairman, and CEO)
Foreword by:	Bob Kerrey (Executive Chairman)
Contributors:	Stephen M. Kosslyn • Ben Nelson (Founder, Chairman, and CEO) • Joshua Fost (Associate Dean of Graduate Students) • Judith Brown (Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities) • Kara Gardner (Associate Dean of Faculty) • Daniel J Levitin (Professor) • John Levitt (Professor of Computational Sciences)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	456
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-53619-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics
LSN:	0-262-53619-6
Barcode:	9780262536196

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