On this episode of Digital Squared, Tom talks with Geoff Watson, President and Chief Business Officer at Minerva Project, a company working to revolutionize higher education.
In the United States, summer is time for a much-deserved school break, family vacations, and for many students – college campus tours.In fact, some students visit so many colleges over the summer it’s dizzying. When I was an admissions counselor...
Hybrid learning, implemented correctly, can benefit students and instructors, improve educational quality, and create operational flexibility for institutions.
I served as an undergraduate admission officer for more than 12 years at selective universities in the United States, and I can easily recall the question that was asked to me most frequently: “What do I need to get in?”
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Why did you choose to join the MBacc program and what were your initial impressions upon learning about the program? When I read the book about Minerva University’s education, I knew it was what I was looking for.
My high school journey in India, like that of most people across the globe, was intense for the wrong reasons. The goal of the institution was clear - to deliver top performance in the nationwide graduating exams and get students into the finest ...
What is SK’s professional learning strategy? Our learning strategy at SK is to equip our employees with skills that allow them life-long employability. In 2017, our chairman, Chey Taewon, triggered the “Deep Change” initiatives throughout every ...
Throughout 2020, universities worldwide began to teach remotely, deciding which platforms to use, whether to teach synchronously or asynchronously, how to prepare faculty, and what to expect from students’ participation while online.
Decades of research demonstrate that active learning is superior to lectures, but lecturing is still the dominant mode of teaching. Why do lectures persist? One hypothesis is that faculty don’t care. A better hypothesis is that faculty avoid ...
Cadi Russell is a Minerva Baccalaureate instructor teaching English Fundamentals since September 2020.
A case for pedagogies that hybridize cross-disciplinary skills with core knowledge.
We have witnessed an unprecedented scale and intensity of disruptions to teaching practices in the last five months. Many teachers who had limited opportunities for training and guidance had to bring their classes online almost overnight ...
Due to campus closures prompted by the coronavirus, college teachers and students all over the world have experienced firsthand the challenges involved in creating high quality online learning experiences. Of course, taking a class that was ...
When things suddenly went online, it was not the time for new tools or techniques. But, now that you’re settling in, you might be thinking about how to level up.
Most educators will be encountering challenges over the next few weeks and months, as their educational institutions transition to online teaching in response to the novel coronavirus.
If you are accustomed to in-person teaching, a sudden switch to a fully-online format can be disorienting and exhausting. You're not alone! The good news is that fully-online teaching can be great, even better than in-person teaching.
As a founding member of the academic team for a university that does all of our teaching in a virtual classroom, I have had many inquiries over the past few days. The faculty I have spoken with feel understandably anxious about how to make...
