The Minerva Project and the Investment Bubble in Online Education - 0 views
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Mathieu Plourde on 12 Nov 12"Minerva is one of the least-publicized but also most well-funded and audacious of the current crop of online education startups. Funded with $25 million from Benchmark Capital-one of the well-known venture-capital firm's largest-ever investments-Minerva says it will begin accepting applicants in 2015 for an entirely Web-based college program. The resulting undergraduate degree, it promises, will have all the prestige of anything the Ivy League can offer, but at half the cost."