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

457 Pages·2017·4.323 MB·English

by  Kosslyn, Stephen M., Ben Nelson, Bob Kerrey

Building the Intentional University

Building the Intentional University
Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
Edited by Stephen M. Kosslyn and Ben Nelson
Foreword by Senator Bob Kerrey
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
© 2017 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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ISBN: 978-0-262-03715-0
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This book is dedicated to Kevin Harvey and Sheldon H. Schuster, who
enabled and enable Minerva through principled daring and vision.
We owe both of you everlasting thanks for allowing us to realize our dream.

Contents
Foreword: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century xi
Senator Bob Kerrey
Preface xix
Ben Nelson
Part I What We Teach and Why 1
1 Why We Need a New Kind of Higher Education 5
Stephen M. Kosslyn and Ben Nelson
2 Practical Knowledge 19
Stephen M. Kosslyn
3 Foundations of the Curriculum 45
Ben Nelson and Stephen M. Kosslyn
4 A New Look at General Education 57
Joshua Fost
5 Multimodal Communications and Effective Communication 73
Judith C. Brown, Kara Gardner, and Daniel J. Levitin
6 Formal Analyses and Critical Thinking 87
John Levitt, Richard Holman, Rena Levitt, and Eric Bonabeau
7 Empirical Analyses and Creative Thinking 97
Megan Gahl and Vicki Chandler
8 Complex Systems and Effective Interaction 109
James Genone and Ian Van Buskirk
9 A New Look at Majors and Concentrations 121
Vicki Chandler, Stephen M. Kosslyn, and James Genone
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Part II How We Teach 135
10 Unlearning to Learn 139
Stephen M. Kosslyn, Robin B. Goldberg, and Teri Cannon
11 The Science of Learning: Mechanisms and Principles 149
Stephen M. Kosslyn
12 Fully Active Learning 165
Joshua Fost, Rena Levitt, and Stephen M. Kosslyn
13 A New Team-Teaching Approach to Structured Learning 179
Joshua Fost, Vicki Chandler, Kara Gardner, and Allison Gale
14 Teaching from Lesson Plans 193
Vicki Chandler, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Richard Holman, and James Genone
15 The Active Learning Forum 203
Jonathan Katzman, Matt Regan, and Ari Bader-Natal
16 Building Lesson Plans for Twenty-First-Century Active
Learning 221
Ari Bader-Natal, Joshua Fost, and James Genone
17 Assessing Student Learning 239
Rena Levitt, Ari Bader-Natal, and Vicki Chandler
Part III Creating a New Institution 253
18 Building a New Brand 255
Ayo Seligman and Robin B. Goldberg
19 Global Outreach: Communicating a New Vision 265
Kenn Ross and Robin B. Goldberg
20 An Admissions Process for the Twenty-First Century 277
Neagheen Homaifar, Ben Nelson, and Stephen M. Kosslyn
21 Multifaceted Acculturation: An Immersive, Community-Based
Multicultural Education 293
Norian Caporale-Berkowitz and James Lyda
22 Experiential Learning: The City as a Campus and Human
Network 305
Z. Mike Wang and Robin B. Goldberg
23 A Global Community by Design 315
Z. Mike Wang and Sultanna Krispil