Building the Intentional University, Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
KOSSLYN, Stephen M and Ben Nelson
Language: English
Published by MIT, 2017
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- Title
- Building the Intentional University, Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
- Author
- KOSSLYN, Stephen M and Ben Nelson
- Publisher
- MIT
- Publication year
- 2017
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- HARDCOVER
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262037157
- ISBN 13
- 9780262037150
- Edition
- 1st edition.
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- EDUCATION
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.
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About the Author
Daniel J. Levitin is Founding Dean of Arts and Humanities at the Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute and James McGill Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience and Music at McGill University. He is the author of four bestselling books, including This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession.
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