: Ben Nelson: “We designed the curriculum, the pedagogy, the technology, the global orientation… to …
: Fully active learning works because it mirrors how understanding actually develops — through …
: The API feature of OpenAlex looks particularly interesting: developers.openalex.org
: New Research Tool: OpenAlex After years of development, this highly useful research tool has just been released: openalex.org It …
: I’ve outlined the basic components of each of the four core competencies. These are further broken …
: Most schools innovate by adding technology onto old pedagogy. Minerva went with first principles …
: Effective interaction, the fourth core competency, is how you negotiate, mediate, and persuade. Also …
: The third Minerva core competency is effective communication. Learning to think and write clearly or …
: The second core competency in the Minerva curriculum is creative thinking. Creative thinking …
: Attended my first international school event yesterday. It was an interesting experience. Over 4,000 …
: The first of Minerva’s four core competencies is critical thinking, which involves evaluating …
: Jensen Huang’s “task and purpose” framework: reduce or automate routine tasks like coding; humans …
: “The purpose of a software engineer is to solve known problems and to find new problems to solve. …
: How can we help students develop into leaders, innovators, and adaptive learners? Kosslyn and Nelson …
: In a fully active learning, radically flipped classroom, valuable and limited class time can shift …
: How is such a high engagement level attained? In short, via a “radically flipped classroom”. In a …
: What does fully active learning look like? We are all familiar with active learning. Fully active …
: Minerva students scored in the 99th percentile on critical thinking tests after just 8 months — …
: Differentiated Instruction in the Language Classroom My posts for Nat Geo Learning’s InFocus blog are up now: infocus.eltngl.com/2026/04/1… …
: A fundamental challenge in education: students learn content in one place and skills somewhere else, …
: Kosslyn’s diagnosis: higher education is too expensive, too ineffective, too entrenched to change in …
: Building something new What would a school look like if it were designed around how people actually learn? That’s the heart …
: Currently reading: Building the Intentional University Minerva and the Future of Higher Education by …