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 this interview, Ben talks about what the term “innovation” means to him; the inspiration behind creating Minerva; how AI and other technology can support and enhance education; and more.
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...
A conversation between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Ben Nelson, Founder and CEO of Minerva Project. They dive deep into the impact of AI on humanity and education, and how our education systems can prepare us for a rapidly changing world.
Inside Voices is an event series organized by Minerva Project that features candid conversations with education leaders who are transforming education, whether building new programs and institutions or radically changing existing ones.
Hybrid learning, implemented correctly, can benefit students and instructors, improve educational quality, and create operational flexibility for institutions.
The evidence in favor of active student engagement is overwhelming: learning outcomes are higher in active versus passive learning environments. Many instructors use active learning techniques; however, the actual level of each student’s ...
Increasingly, professional education programs are being required, like many other business investments, to show clear and measurable results. In their 2019 study, UNICON reported that 56% of L&D executives think ROI for executive education ...
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.
Since early African hominids gathered to discuss flint chipping techniques, teachers have worked with their students in shared physical spaces. Being in a shared physical space enables us to have a shared focus of attention: what researchers call ...
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 ...
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.
Almost as rapid as the spread of coronavirus came the abrupt mass migration of practically every facet of modern-day life to online platforms. As universities, schools, and workplaces across the world shut down, the transition to online ...
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.
