Building the Intentional University : Minerva and the Future of Higher Education /

How to reinvent higher education for the twenty-first century: building Minerva. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century -- how would you build it from the groun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kerrey, Robert, 1943- (writer of foreword.), Nelson, Ben (Editor ), Kosslyn, Stephen Michael, 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Educational change > United States.
Education, Higher > United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.

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