Pandemic considerably changed the landscape of the campus. We had to abjure the existing lecture method which is classroom-focused, but it gave rise to a change-point like metaverse in college education. One college emerging as a new vision blower in this trend is Minerva University. It, in 2014, was founded by Ben Nelson with the goal of reforming the basis of current pedagogy and nurturing the competent problem-solver. This university actively designed singular manners such as a project-based curriculum, immersive online platform, and global experience. In addition, one distinct feature among other universities is it has no campus, merely seven dormitories around the world. Students take project-centered online lectures while living around seven cities including Seoul, and Berlin throughout their degree course. Minerva University strives to foster wise leaders who can address humanity’s challenges by pursuing their own philosophy, and this step is propagating around the field of universities.
  In Korea, the movement to go forward with Minerva, mainly with the newly-established colleges has also been captured recently. Existing colleges commenced to introduce diverse programs based on Minerva’s one, or a new college was entirely established with the concept of Minerva. One case is the Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH), a research-oriented college founded in 2021, venturously building various teaching methods. They brought in Minerva’s curriculum and the online platform, Forum, which is used in Minerva University, and have close cooperation with Minerva University. Students take HASS (Humanities, Arts, Social Science) the same as Minerva University students, using the same curriculum, platform, and above all, pedagogy: active debate, live polling, and collaboration. KENTECH claims that the course is to intensify fundamental skills such as critical and creative thinking in addition to effective communication and interrelation. The Minerva Project, an organization to develop Minerva’s curriculum selected KENTECH as an excellent case in their report published in May.
  While KENTECH utilizes Minerva’s course, TAEJAE University, founded in April, completely has the shape of Minerva University. This school implements project-oriented classes and a Global Engagement Program where students travel to residential campuses in five countries. These are very similar to Minerva, so this university is regarded as a Korean Minerva. The President of TAEJAE, Yeom Jae-ho emphasized that we should abolish the standard pattern of the lecture and showed his ambition of surpassing Minerva University in a few years. TAEJAE selects its first 200 freshmen this September through the School of Innovation Foundations and students may select their major or design their own major later.
  When it comes to POSTECH, they put up a sign of “Metaversity” during the pandemic. One of the projects of the Metaversity is Off-Campus, in which students are away from the campus and free to conduct their activities all over the world while taking courses online, just like Minerva. Students are able to experience travel, academic exchanges, and so forth. The former President Moo Hwan Kim said that learning other cultures’ thinking and reality would be the best experience as a student.
  The emergence of Minerva influenced many colleges, and it has led to an innovative education system. All lectures in Minerva are active learning like debate and help students to elicit what they should do for themselves. Paradoxically, the future of the university may be vitalized through eliminating the campus. As Peter Drucker, an influential futurist, delineated, the campus might be a relic soon.