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.
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT is transforming the higher education landscape, sparking both excitement and concern. While many celebrate their potential to revolutionize how students learn, educators teach...
When Yul Kim, a 14-year-old student from California, was searching for high school programs, he had a few criteria he was looking for. An ambitious student, he wanted a program that offered a hybrid format that would challenge him in new ways...
Skipping lunch periods, cramming for Advanced Placement (AP) exams, staying up for hours to finish homework, barely getting any sleep each night — all with the end goal of getting into the “best” college.
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...
In April 2019, Koldo Echebarria, recently appointed Director General at Esade, called Mònica Casabayó, the Academic Director of the Bachelor’s in Business Administration (BBA). “We need to create a program designed to train the next ...
Since the onset of the recent pandemic, schools and universities have been forced to put a lot of their teaching online. On the surface, this seems to have spurred a series of innovations in the education sector. Colleges around the world ...
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.
Science is the process of learning how the world works. Students come to class to learn about the world, but the world in the classroom often does not correspond to the world where they live their lives.
Science is the process of learning how the world works. Students come to class to learn about the world, but the world in the classroom often does not correspond to the world where they live their lives.
Science is the process of learning how the world works. Students come to class to learn about the world, but the world in the classroom often does not correspond to the world where they live their lives.
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 ...
In the past several decades, interdisciplinary research that integrates approaches from diverse specialized fields has produced significant advances in human knowledge, and has spawned multiple areas of sustained collaboration in areas such as ...
In 2012, Tony Wagner, then a Harvard Innovation Education Fellow, interviewed hundreds of CEOs to determine the skills that our youth would need to thrive in the future. He reported themes such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration ...
As on-campus meetings for laboratory courses are cancelled, you might be wondering if you’ll be able to meet your goals in a virtual environment. It will take some adjustment, but it is doable if you are strategic about what you want your ...
