EDU013 Reinventing University? Minerva really DID IT! A 2020 update with Minerva founder Ben Nelson

"Our goal is to displace Harvard“, Minerva founder Ben Nelson
boasted in the Wall Street Journal in 2013. Only three years later
it was reported that Minerva got 16,000 applications for 306
available places, making its acceptance more exclusive than Harvard
or Stanford. Meanwhile in 2019 the first students have graduated.
There’s much talking about disruption in Higher Education. At
Minerva they are serious about it. The team has abandoned lectures,
brought classes to a truly novel online environment and has the
students moving every semester – from San Francisco to Seoul,
Hyderabad, Berlin, Buenos Aires, London, and Taipei. Jöran
Muuß-Merholz learned about Minerva in early 2013. But he thought of
them as some elearning weirdos. ;-) In January 2020 he met Ben
Nelson at Minerva’s HQ in San Francisco. Listen to their
conversation on fundamental change in HE, how money can buy you
access to education and fully active learning. Es gibt eine kurze
deutschsprachige Einordnung mit Grundlagen zum Studium bei Minerva
in einer Sonderfolge von Jöran ruft an (JRA). Wir empfehlen
deutschsprachigen Zuhörer*innen, diese 5 Minuten zuerst zu hören.