The Minerva Project is a non-profit Ivy League-style university created and designed especially for America’s most talented students. It isn’t even open yet; it’s planning a 2015 launch. The Minerva Project uses an online curriculum, but also offers a slightly different twist from a college that’s exclusively online. Minerva Project will mix online learning with offline living in physical dorms; not just in the United States, but across the globe. Theoretically, students will get the best elements of America’s current higher education system — customized online learning at their own convenience, classes led by talented PhD teachers, and the opportunity to experience many of the social benefits of a physical university. More specifically, the idea is to rotate students through six different countries during their 4 years of college. Dormitories will be in major cities, such as Paris, Beijing, and Sao Paulo. Each online class will consist of no more than 25 students. The idea for the Minerva Project originally came from a former Internet executive, Ben Nelson, CEO of Snapfish. Nelson believed highly in the importance of social interaction in addition to online learning. Since the absence of social interactivity was often the main criticism against pure online learning, Nelson wanted to act on an impulse to connect the two.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:28:05 +0000
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