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1. Curriculum2. Pedagogy3. Technology4. Metrics
CONTENTS
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Curriculum:
Designed to help
students succeed
Photo: Bob Miller
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The only real measure of Minerva’s success is the success of our students.
5. Too Much Material Slides that Work
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A focus onpractical knowledge
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Practical knowledge allows people to adapt to a changing world—it is knowledge that helps people achieve their evolving goals.
It is not pre-professional.It is not vocational.It is broad; preparing students for jobs that don’t even exist yet.
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Four Core Competencies
Personal skills Interpersonal skills
critical thinking
creative thinking
effective communication
effective interaction
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A surprising discovery:
We could not teach these core competencies directly!
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Each core competency is not “one thing”:
Each core competency is in fact a heterogeneous collection of different types of abilities.
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Specific types (examples):
Communicating effectively: writing
clearly, presenting effectively
Thinking creatively: solving problems, facilitating
discovery
Thinking critically: evaluating claims,
weighing decisions
Interacting effectively: negotiating,
working on teams
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Minerva has designed a four-year undergraduate program to develop practical knowledge
intentionally.
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Minerva has focused on how to help students transfer practical knowledge to new contexts, including those that appear very different on the surface.
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Early Twentieth Century:Great Books Programs
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Twenty-first Century:A Great Cognitive Tools Program
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Pedagogy:Based on the science of learning
Photo: Bob Miller
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Fundamental knowledge and skills cannot easily be learned in lectures.
Lectures are a great way to teach, but a terrible way to learn.
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Active learning is vastly superior to lectures
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Active learning requires using information in some way—not just memorizing it.
For example, active learning can occur via debates, group-problem solving, role playing, and guided analysis.
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“The studies analyzed here document that active learning leads to increases in examination performance that would raise average grades by a half a letter, and that failure rates under traditional lecturing increase by 55% over the rates observed under active learning....
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….Finally, the data suggest that STEM instructors may begin to question the continued use of traditional lecturing in everyday practice, especially in light of recent work indicating that active learning confers disproportionate benefits for STEM students from disadvantaged backgrounds and for female students in male-dominated fields...”
Freeman et al. (2014). PNAS.
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The active ingredients in active learning are distilled by the science of learning
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The science of learning:
Two Maxims
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Maxim 1: Think it through
For example, consider what you remember at bedtime about your day. How much of this did you try to remember?
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Maxim 2: Make and use associations
For example, consider how to use associations to learn the names of people you meet.
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Active learning is effective because it draws on these underlying principles.Our seminars are designed to lead students to think through and organize material.
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The science of learning informs not just Minerva’s pedagogy: It also underlies the structure of the curriculum.
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The curriculum is scaffolded in order to draw on these principles.
Scaffolding: We lead students to build on what came before:
• supports are gradually removed
• information is cumulative
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Electives
Third and Fourth Years
Capstone and tutorials
focus on the future
Major(s)
Second-Year
Broad, interdisciplinary,
forward-looking majors
General Education
First-Year
Integrated program to
provide general foundations
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A fully integrated program:Each year builds on the previous ones.
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Technology:
Centered on
novel seminars
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Face-to-face, synchronous seminars with fully active (not semi-active) learningenhanced teachingmetric-based learning
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A video
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Metrics:
Identifying areas for
improvement, tracking success
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Four metrics
surveysrubricsCLA+
employer feedback
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CLA + Results: Class of 2020
Percentiles: Fall: 78 Spring: 99 +21
Compared to Seniors at other institutions
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Select First-year Internships
Apple iAd Data
Analyst Intern
Uber Eats Product
Intern
Yahoo! Software
Engineering Intern
Amazon Software
Engineering Intern
Dalberg Global
Development Intern
Aneesh Chopra
Data Analysis Intern
500 Startups
Business
Development Intern
Learn Capital
Portfolio Company
Team Intern
Fujitsu
Laboratories
Intern
Stanford d.school
School Retool
Intern
ZhenFund
Operations Team
Intern
Caltech Summer
Undergraduate
Research Fellow
Humanity in Action
Summer Fellowship
Santa Fe Institute
Research Intern
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Source: 2016 Professional Development Agency placement data
87%of first-year students secured
meaningful research positions
and internships
Source: 2016 Minerva survey of undergraduate interns
90%of their managers said they
performed above the level
expected of undergraduates
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1. Curriculum2. Pedagogy3. Technology4. Metrics
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