A Silicon Valley startup could volunteer a template for universities altering their courses online due to coronavirus

No one could accuse CEO and financier Ben Nelson of shortage intention. “I wanted to create a university that serves as a simulate for other institutions, by being indisputably the best university in the world, ” he says, bouncing up and down on a video label from his San Francisco office. “Unless you demonstrate that you are the absolute best, that you can provide an education that Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford cannot come close to , nobody will listen. And we are doing accurately that.”

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