
Eric Mazur
Dutch-American physicist and educatorWikipedia
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Nov 11, 2026
Rethinking Higher Education From the Outside In: Ben Nelson, CEO and founder of Minerva University

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2:58Ben NelsonGUEST
Wow.
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2:59Ben NelsonGUEST
And that study, which was initially done in the late 1980s by Eric Mazur, has been repeated in every context you can imagine, every setting you can imagine, and the range is almost always the same.
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3:10Ben NelsonGUEST
And so the amount of ineffective learning that occurs at universities is massive.
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3:16Ben NelsonGUEST
The second is what it is that we learn.
Harvard i-lab | The Power of Wearable Technology in Sports
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10:05Isaiah KacyvenskiGUEST
One other aspect that I wanted to touch on as well is my time here at Harvard, as well as my time at Harvard Business School as undergrad, really helped shape how I thought and how I still think about the world.
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10:19Isaiah KacyvenskiGUEST
and has really helped shape how I think about business at MC10, as well as a lot of other things I've been involved with, which is, you know, my undergrad experience, you know, I was that pre-med undergrad, and I remember having a class by Eric Mazur.
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10:33Isaiah KacyvenskiGUEST
He's a physicist, you know, world-renowned.
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10:35Isaiah KacyvenskiGUEST
He's been here for a long time, and I was always so set, and there was one right answer, and I remember one day in class where it kind of changed me forever, where...