
Building the Intentional University
Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
MIT Press
Published on 28. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
456 pages
978-0-262-53619-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
9 b&w illus.; 18 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-262-53619-6 (9780262536196)
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Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
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Persons
Editor
Minerva Schools at KGI
Founder, Chairman, and CEOMinerva Schools at KGI
Contributions
Minerva Schools at KGI
Founder, Chairman, and CEOMinerva Schools at KGI
Associate Dean of Graduate StudentsMinerva Schools at KGI
Dean of the College of Arts and HumanitiesMinerva Schools at KGI
Associate Dean of FacultyMinerva Schools at KGI
ProfessorMcGill University
Professor of Computational SciencesMinerva Schools at KGI
Foreword
Executive ChairmanMinerva Schools at KGI