{"id":28330,"date":"2012-04-04T09:14:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T13:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=28330"},"modified":"2012-04-04T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T13:48:57","slug":"could-the-next-elite-university-be-online-and-venture-backed-gannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/04\/04\/could-the-next-elite-university-be-online-and-venture-backed-gannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the next elite university be online and venture-backed? [Gannes]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20120403\/could-the-next-elite-university-be-online-and-venture-backed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Could the next elite university be online and venture-backed?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from AllThingsD.com by Liz Gannes<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minervaproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Minerva Project<\/a> says it\u2019s planning to launch the first elite American university in a century. Sounds wacky, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But the project is starting to gather some heavyweight support: Former Harvard President and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers will chair its advisory board, and Benchmark Capital has committed $25 million, the VC firm\u2019s largest seed investment ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Elite higher education is a stagnant market, argues Minerva CEO Ben Nelson. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Far more people are qualified to get into top colleges than are admitted.<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Meanwhile, college education is too expensive and good teaching is undervalued. How can you address all that? By going online.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minervaproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-28331\" title=\"minervaproject-dot-com-April2012\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/minervaproject-dot-com-April2012.jpg\" alt=\"minervaproject.com\" width=\"519\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/minervaproject-dot-com-April2012.jpg 519w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/minervaproject-dot-com-April2012-150x51.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/04\/03\/minerva-gets-25m-from-benchmark\/ \" target=\"_blank\">With $25M from Benchmark and Larry Summers advising, can Minerva build an online Ivy?<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from techcrunch.com by Rip Empson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could the next elite university be online and venture-backed? &#8212; from AllThingsD.com by Liz Gannes Excerpt: The Minerva Project says it\u2019s planning to launch the first elite American university in a century. Sounds wacky, right? But the project is starting to gather some heavyweight support: Former Harvard President and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Larry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,239,62],"tags":[586,251,601],"class_list":["post-28330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-higher-education","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-online-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28330"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28352,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330\/revisions\/28352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}