Building the intentional university
Subtitle: Minerva and the future of higher education
By: edited by Stephen M. Kosslyn and Ben Nelson ; foreword by Senator Bob Kerrey
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780262037150
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Curricula; Higher Education; Philosophy; Aims and objectives
Description: "We start with a simple question: If you could reinvent higher education for the 21st century, what should it look like? We began by taking a hard look at problems in traditional higher education, and innovated in many ways to address these problems head-on: We have created a new curriculum, focusing on what we call "practical knowledge"; we have developed new pedagogy, based on the science of learning; we have used technology in novel ways, to deliver small seminars in real time; and we have developed an international hybrid residential model, where students take classes on the computer but live together, rotating through seven different cities around the world. The Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) are the first university experience built for the twenty-first century. In setting up this program, we have had to confront the realities of all aspects of higher education--from admissions, through instruction, to career development, to establishing a reputation. The goal of this book is to provide an evidence-based model for a future of higher education. We have learned a lot about how to reshape all facets of higher education and this book summarizes what we have learned. We hope that our innovations can serve as models of "best practices"--and thereby have a major influence on higher education writ large"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Higher education in the twenty-first century / J. Robert Kerrey; title: Why we need a new kind of higher education / Stephen M. Kosslyn and Ben Nelson; title: Practical knowledge / Stephen M. Kosslyn; title: Foundations of the curriculum / Ben Nelson and Stephen M. Kosslyn; title: A new look at general education / Joshua Fost; title: Multimodal communication and effective communication / Judith C. Brown, Kara Gardner, and Daniel J. Levitin; title: Formal analyses and critical thinking / John Levitt, Richard Holman, Rena Levitt, and Eric Bonabeau; title: Empirical analyses and creative thinking / Megan Gahl and Vicki Chandler; title: Complex systems and effective interaction / James Genone and Ian Van Buskirk; title: A new look at majors and concentrations / Vicki Chandler, Stephen M. Kosslyn, and James Genone; title: Unlearning to learn / Stephen M. Kosslyn, Robin Goldberg, and Teri Cannon; title: The science of learning: mechanisms and principles / Stephen M. Kosslyn; title: Fully active learning / Joshua Fost, Rena Levitt, and Stephen M. Kosslyn; title: A new team-teaching approach to structured learning / Joshua Fost, Vicki Chandler, Kara Gardner, and Allison Gale; title: Teaching from lesson plans; title: Vicki Chandler, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Richard Holman, and James Genone; title: The active learning forum / Jonathan Katzman, Matt Regan, and Ari Bader-natal; title: Building lesson plans for twenty-first-century active learning / Ari Bader-natal, Joshua Fost and, James Genone; title: Assessing student learning / Rena Levitt, Ari Bader-natal, and Vicki Chandler; title: Building a new brand / Ayo Seligman and Robin B. Goldberg; title: Global outreach: communicating a new vision / Kenn Ross and Robin B. Goldberg; title: An admissions process for the twenty-first century / Neagheen Homaifar, Ben Nelson, and Stephen M. Kosslyn; title: Multifaceted acculturation: an immersive, community-based multicultural eduation / Norian Caporale-Berkowitz and James Lyda; title: Experiential learning: the city as a campus and human network / Z. Mike Wang and Robin B. Goldberg; title: A global community by design / Z. Mike Wang and Sultanna Krispil; title: Mental health services in a diverse, twenty-first-century university / James Lyda and Norian Caporale-Berkowitz; title: The Minerva professional development agency / Robin B. Goldberg and Anne Kauth; title: Accreditation: official recognition of a new vision of higher education / Teri Cannon; title: A novel business and operating model / Ben Nelson; title: Afterword: For the sake of the world / Ben Nelson, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Jonathan Katzman, Robin B. Goldberg, and Teri Cannon.