Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262037157 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of C ognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press).Ben Nelson is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Minerva. . A visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education, he spent more than ten years at Snapfish, serving five years as CEO. About the Author Stephen M
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. Higher education is in crisis. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recr
. Stephen M. Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of C ognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press).Ben Nelson is