Minerva’s fully integrated curriculum, instruction, and assessment model is enabled by our proprietary learning platform, called Forum.

Forum was designed to support and facilitate Minerva’s educational philosophy and hybrid innovation — it is more than a standalone technology platform, and is intended to facilitate a cohesive learning journey across multiple modalities.

As the basis for our educational delivery system, Forum paves the path for global, high-impact programs. Rather than a one-way conduit for information sharing, or a repurposed business conferencing tool, the learning environment offers a deeply engaging digital experience for learners and instructors alike. Its robust features, varied learning modalities, and data gathering and management tools offer capabilities and insights not available in any other platform.

Forum is intentionally built for deep learner engagement, enabling both continuity of outcomes throughout a course and variety within individual sessions, hallmarks of our Fully Active Learning pedagogy. In each session, instructors act as facilitators — not lecturers — moving learners through an assortment of activities that vary from session to session. For example, one session may center on Socratic discussion about a key concept, then flow into a simulation exercise exploring how that concept can yield different outcomes; the next session might reintroduce that same concept, but use breakout groups to analyze the reasons for the different outcomes from the previous session. This level of instructional fluidity and pedagogical sophistication is nearly impossible in standard classroom settings, much less other digital class technologies.

The extensive data collection capabilities in Forum empower learners, instructors, and institutions with real-time feedback and analysis. For example, the TalkTime™ feature provides an overview of student participation with a single keystroke, allowing instructors to easily call on students who are not engaging in discussion. By gathering specific, personalized data on learner engagement and performance, Forum helps instructors track, manage, and influence individual progress in specific sessions and over time. Instructors themselves can also learn from their own performance, similar to athletes watching video of their game day performance. At the institutional level, Forum provides aggregate and anonymized reporting features, so administrators can review overall program metrics, evaluate impact, and gain critical insights for curricular refinement and program expansion.

The Course Builder™ feature is a sophisticated tool for constructing courses according to the skills taxonomy and curricular sequencing for partner programs. Course Builder allows instructors and curriculum designers to craft syllabi, lesson plans, and assignments interwoven with learning outcomes across lessons, disciplines, and contexts, enabling more efficient use of class time. With Course Builder, each lesson and assignment is tagged with a learning outcome tied to the curriculum, allowing deeper integration and analysis of these learning outcomes across courses, and over time.