{"id":66975,"date":"2019-04-22T12:16:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=66975"},"modified":"2019-04-22T12:20:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:20:36","slug":"minervas-innovative-platform-makes-quality-higher-ed-personal-and-affordable-vander-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/04\/22\/minervas-innovative-platform-makes-quality-higher-ed-personal-and-affordable-vander-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"Minerva\u2019s Innovative Platform Makes Quality Higher Ed Personal and Affordable [Vander Ark]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/minervas-innovative-platform-makes-quality-higher-ed-tom-vander-ark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Minerva\u2019s Innovative Platform Makes Quality Higher Ed Personal and Affordable<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from linkedin.com by Tom Vander Ark<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The first external partner, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), loved the course design and platform but told Nelson they couldn\u2019t afford to teach 15 students at a time. The Minerva team realized that to be applicable at major universities, active learning needed to be scalable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Starting this summer, a new version of Forum will be available for classes of up to 400 at a time. For students, it will still feel like a small seminar. They\u2019ll see the professor, themselves, and a dozen other students. Forum will manage the movement of students from screen to screen. \u201cEverybody thinks they are in the main room,\u201d said Nelson.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nForum enables real-time polling and helps professors create and manage breakout groups.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Big Implications<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>With Forum, \u201cFor the first time you can deliver better than Ivy League education at absurdly low cost,\u201d said Nelson.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Online courses and MOOCs just repackaged the same format and just offered it with less interaction. As new Forum partners will demonstrate, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cIt&#8217;s possible to deliver a year of undergraduate education that is vastly superior for under $5,000 per student,\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>added Nelson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He\u2019s excited to offer a turnkey university solution that, for partners like Oxford Teachers Academy, will allow new degree pathways for paraprofessionals that can work, learn, and earn a degree and certification.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Perhaps another piece of the puzzle is falling into place&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/thelivingclassroom\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65329 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg\" alt=\"Another piece of the puzzle is coming into place...for the Learning from the Living Class Room vision\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg 616w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minerva\u2019s Innovative Platform Makes Quality Higher Ed Personal and Affordable &#8212; from linkedin.com by Tom Vander Ark Excerpt: The first external partner, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), loved the course design and platform but told Nelson they couldn\u2019t afford to teach 15 students at a time. 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