Re-Engaging Learners With Strategic Teaching Approaches to Entrepreneur Learning in Higher Education

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作者
Barrett, Bob [1 ]
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[1] Amer Publ Univ, Charlestown, MA USA
来源
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (ICIE-2014) | 2014年
关键词
Entrepreneurship; innovation; incubator programs; online learning; virtual business;
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C93 [管理学];
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12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
Traditionally, universities have approached the areas of entrepreneurship as a part of their course offerings, but with little emphasis on its value as a component of its various business programs However, during the past decade, there has been a resurgence of emphasis on the areas of entrepreneurship, as well as the innovation that may be connected to new business engagements by individuals. As a result, more higher education institutions are seeing a need for growing this component of their business program, as well as re-engaging their learners to become more interested in the possibility of becoming their own boss and creating an entity that will have not only value to themselves, but also to the free market. A common theme that we are starting to see in today's workplace is the search for meaning in the context of work in terms of finding meaning in what one does with their skills, knowledge, and abilities in the pursuit of gaining a salary, but enjoying what one does. On the other side of the spectrum, some universities have been offering alternatives to their credit-awarding courses through the use of incubator programs. While some members of higher education institutions have offered some form of incubator programs for entrepreneurship, such as the Virtual Incubation Network. This network is a grant-funded initiative that is under the leadership of the American Association of Community Colleges and 11 community colleges. This network's aim is to try new mechanisms to support businesses and technological processes. With this approach consider, this leads to question whether or not online learning programs, on the higher education level, can offer some type of technological support for instructors to "re-think" and "re-imagine" their teaching strategies and approaches with entrepreneur learning? In particular, this paper will focus on how technological changes in the learning process can help instructors to "re-imagine" how changes in their teaching strategies can help re-engage the learner and perhaps start a new "renaissance" for the business field's impact on entrepreneur learning.
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