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Marcus Kuhn  //  I'm a 25 year old business student from Switzerland and one of the co-founders of connex.io. I have an interest in both technology and business and try to connect those two worlds.

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Sep 27 / 10:46pm

Redesigning education

About a year back a friend asked my a hypothetical question, what I would do if I had a lot of money? What problem would I try to solve? And I surprised him with my answer: I would build a University, my University :-)

I see a lot of potential for education to solve the majority of humanities problems and over the last year i have given the idea some thought. But now I need your input:

What would you change in education in general and University education in specific to improve on toady's system?

I truly believe, that today's approach to teaching at institutes of higher learning is flawed. Everything is put on PowerPoint slides and pushed into a twelve week semester etc. So, if you could rethink the system, take a novel approach to education, what would you do? (Radical ideas are more then welcome, maybe even a suggestion to shift the paradigm, to redefine the problem)
You can comment to this post, drop me an email (marcuskuhn@gmail.com), send me a message on Facebook (facebook.com/marcuskuhn) or even send a flash of genius via Twitter (twitter.com/marcuskuhn). Not only ideas are welcome but also other materials and interesting reads.

I will collect all the ideas and thoughts and post them in the form of another blog post.

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