Minerva Schools KGI Presentation for CUC Intercollegiate Academic

Minerva Schools @ KGI Presentation for: CUC Intercollegiate Academic Computing Committee (IACC) Lindsay Janssen Academic Coordinator, KGI Professional Science Masters National Office Mgr.

Minerva Schools @ KGI is collaborating with the Minerva Project to: • incubate the Minerva Schools at KGI while they pursue full WASC accreditation. • pilot and make use of the Minerva Project’s proprietary technology, developed to provide seminar-based interactive learning. What is the Minerva Project?

What is the Minerva Project? The Minerva Project is a company organized by Ben Nelson, founder of Snap. Fish, to catalyze and support innovation within the higher education community that will result in affordable, accessible high quality higher education. The Minerva Project is providing services, resources and a technological platform to effectuate the creation and operation of the Minerva Schools @ KGI will be directly engaged in the development of the Minerva Schools@KGI.

What are the Minerva Schools at KGI? The Minerva model will redefine nearly every aspect of the modern college education while embracing its best traditions. Its primary characteristics are: Highly selective admissions based on both conventional indicators and a carefully constructed battery of tests that identify the desired characteristics, e. g. , motivation, conscientiousness, leadership, maturity, creativity, and resilience. A global student body, with students expected to attend from countries all over the world, and a global residential experience in which students live together in Minerva housing, and move in cohorts to a different city in another country each semester after the first year. Local advisors will curate deep cultural immersion in each city in which the students live.

The Technology The Minerva Project’s proprietary technology has been developed by a skilled and accomplished team to provide seminar-based interactive learning and assessment, using as a model the types of small classes that are characteristic of the CCs. It is the reverse of a MOOC. It is being designed to provide: • Deep and collaborative learning enabled by the features of the platform, which embeds methods of immediate feedback, assessment and evaluation, peer instruction, small break-out groups, real-time quizzes and polls, and more. • Data-driven formative assessment of engagement and learning throughout each course and the entire four years of undergraduate study, also enabled by the platform and use of rubrics for assessing level of mastery of the outcomes.

The Technology • Students access the instructional platform (in groups of 20) on laptops from their cohort’s current location. • The pilot class of 20 is in Fall 2014 and will help us refine the curriculum, assessments, platform. The first full class in Fall 2015. • After the first full cohort in 2015, faculty for each class will teach from offsite, enabling the MS@KGI to collect the best faculty from around the world. • Students may have access to the CUC library collection, but will not likely access other CUC academic technology.

The Timeframe NOW: Minerva Project is still developing the more innovative features of the software. The model has been tested successfully at two universities, including a medical school. NOW: KGI is participating in development of the technology so that it will address the emerging plans to use it in KGI’s graduate, professional, and continuing and corporate education programs. January 2014: KGI will make its first use in January 2014 for a program in India. Uses of the platform (eg: for breakout sessions) will also be integrated into KGI classes and Team Master’s Projects. Fall 2014: MS@KGI will enroll about 19 students in fall 2014 and 150 in fall 2015. They will attend classes initially in San Francisco using the platform. Through 2023: KGI has use of the technology for at least 10 years, paying only direct costs of bandwidth and storage.

Face to face interactive seminars using Minerva Platform -- Interdisciplinary curriculum -- Habits of mind in the learning process -- Breakout groups and shared notes -- Polls -- Collaborative document discussion DEMO

Technology Developer Jonathan Katzman Chief Product Officer Jonathan Katzman is the Chief Product Officer of Minerva Project responsible for defining and delivering the technology solution to ensure both an exceptional student learning experience as well as all the technology and infrastructure to support the university overall. • founded Xoopit to focus on personal data in the cloud (acquired by Yahoo! in 2009). • led the Yahoo! Social Bar product, which grew to become a top 3 Facebook application; led other social initiatives across Yahoo!; managed social and photo initiatives in Yahoo! Mail; ran Tellme's directory assistance business; served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition Corporation; worked on Microsoft Office and Front. Page as both a development lead and program manager. • Graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard in computer science.