Building the intentional university Minerva and the future of higher education
"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, fo...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press
[2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword : higher education in the twenty-first century / Senator Bob Kerrey
- Preface / Ben Nelson
- part I. What we teach and why
- 1. Why we need a new kind of higher education / Stephen M. Kosslyn and Ben Nelson
- 2. Practical knowledge / Stephen M. Kosslyn
- 3. Foundations of the curriculum / Ben Nelson and Stephen M. Kosslyn
- 4. A new look at general education / Joshua Fost
- 5. Multimodal communications and effective communication / Judith C. Brown, Kara Gardner, and Daniel J. Levitin
- 6. Formal analyses and critical thinking / John Levitt, Richard Holman, Rena Levitt, and Eric Bonabeau
- 7. Empirical analyses and creative thinking / Megan Gahl and Vicki Chandler
- 8. Complex systems and effective interaction / James Genone and Ian Van Buskirk
- 9. A new look at majors and concentrations / Vicki Chandler, Stephen M. Kosslyn, and James Genone
- part II. How we teach
- 10. Unlearning to learn / Stephen M. Kosslyn, Robin B. Goldberg, and Teri Cannon
- 11. The science of learning : mechanisms and principles / Stephen M. Kosslyn
- 12. Fully active learning / Joshua Fost, Rena Levitt, and Stephen M. Kosslyn
- 13. A new team-teaching approach to structured learning / Joshua Fost, Vicki Chandler, Kara Gardner, and Allison Gale
- 14. Teaching from lesson plans / Vicki Chandler, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Richard Holman, and James Genone
- 15. The active learning forum / Jonathan Katzman, Matt Regan, and Ari Bader-Natal
- 16. Building lesson plans for twenty-first-century active learning / Ari Bader-Natal, Joshua Fost, and James Genone
- 17. Assessing student learning / Rena Levitt, Ari Bader-Natal, and Vicki Chandler
- part III. Creating a new institution
- 18. Building a new brand / Ayo Seligman and Robin B. Goldberg
- 19. Global outreach : communicating a new vision / Kenn Ross and Robin B. Goldberg
- 20. An admissions process for the twenty-first century / Neagheen Homaifar, Ben Nelson, and Stephen M. Kosslyn
- 21. Multifaceted acculturation : an immersive, community-based multicultural education / Norian Caporale-Berkowitz and James Lyda
- 22. Experiential learning : the city as a campus and human network / Z. Mike Wang and Robin B. Goldberg
- 23. A global community by design / Z. Mike Wang and Sultanna Krispil
- 24. Mental health services in a diverse, twenty-first-century university / James Lyda and Norian Caporale-Berkowitz
- 25. The Minerva Professional Development Agency / Robin B. Goldberg and Anne Kauth
- 26. Accreditation : official recognition of a new vision of higher education / Teri Cannon
- 27. A novel business and operating model / Ben Nelson
- Afterword : for the sake of the world / Ben Nelson, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Jonathan Katzman, Robin B. Goldberg, and Teri Cannon
- Appendix A. Habits of mind and foundational concepts
- Appendix B. Mission, principles, and practices.
