Retaining What You Study in School with Ben Nelson, Founder and Chancellor at Minerva University

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Ben Nelson, founder and chancellor at Minerva University.

Ben is a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education through methods of learning that help students better retain the information they take in. 

The educational learning structure should be divided into three separate areas: the acquisition of information, experiential learning, and application in real world contexts.

The way that most classes are conducted, people generally don't recall what happened in their classes after they've finished a test or assignment that they studied for.

Memory comes for free when you deeply process information and apply it. When you make a user association, you retain it. Your mind doesn't remember information because you were tested on it — it remembers the information that you engage with.

Despite the fact that Minerva University is unique and there's currently no other system of learning like it, the components that make it unique aren't that difficult. Now, they require a lot of work and different minds, and years of tuning, so the difficulty is actually the adoption and thinking through it. 

Listen to today's episode to learn exactly how Ben thinks through these learning processes.

Connect with Ben Nelson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennelson3/

Learn more about Minerva University at https://www.minerva.edu/

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