Dive Summary:
- San Francisco-based startup Minerva says tuition for its undergraduate program combining online and offline learning will be $10,000 and its first class will have its tuition waived.
- Minerva has some things in common with MOOCs but is not quite a MOOC: Students will be housed in one of Minerva's own dorms and take classes in live online video chats with their professors.
- After a freshman year in San Francisco, students will spend the next six semesters in six different countries.
From the article:
... According to Nelson, the goal of Minerva Project, which raised $25 million in venture funding last year, is to provide students with a richer educational experience than they could get even at the world's best universities, and for a fraction of the cost. That means the school will not only offer traditional majors, but also mandatory courses on how to become better critical thinkers. ...
