In part three of a three-piece series, I consider the challenges Minerva poses to institutions and assumptions within higher education. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each ...

These days, everyone wants to disrupt higher education. But Ben Nelson, CEO and founder of Minerva Project, thinks he just might have cracked the code. The San Francisco-based start-up announced ...

Ben Nelson is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Minerva, a San Francisco-based university and ed-tech startup. Prior to founding Minerva, Ben spent more than 10 years at Snapfish, serving as CEO for ...

Minerva is one of the most interesting startups in the world today. Minerva hopes to revolutionize higher education, not just by putting courses online, but by becoming itself an institution of higher ...

In part one of a three-piece series, I consider how Minerva challenges the MOOC status quo. Online courses tend to exchange distance for scale. While an educator can reach thousands of students with a ...

With a majority of schools and institutions of higher learning around the world currently operating in virtual space, there may be no better opportunity for programs geared from the start for online ...

The Minerva Project, an airy-sounding venture in San Francisco aiming to create an elite university for the 21st century, just poached a top academic from Stanford University. The company made a ...

EVERYONE’S MAD ABOUT MINERVA: If you work in education, you’ve probably heard about the Minerva Project. That’s partly because CEO Ben Nelson has done a lot of ...

Imagine a college experience without the brick-and-mortar college. You hit the snooze button on your alarm a few times in the morning and finally stagger out of bed, yet instead of racing across the ...

Ben Nelson is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Minerva, a San Francisco-based university and ed-tech startup. Prior to founding Minerva, Ben spent more than 10 years at Snapfish, serving as CEO for ...

to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. In my past two columns, I examined how Minerva departs from the lecture-based status quo of massive open online courses (MOOCs) ...

In my past two columns, I examined how Minerva departs from the lecture-based status quo of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and what that departure looks like for students and educators. This week ...