Conference Session

Course-based Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Warren, Pennsylvania State University; Ralph Hanke, Bowling Green University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

at apredetermined time and then close once the deadline for assignment submission has passed.Facilitators can access these boxes to examine submissions, provide feedback, and grade thestudents.Figures 3 and 4 (see Appendix A) provide examples of some of the course management tools. Infigure three there is a record of the amount of email exchanged and online activity engaged in bystudents over a specified period of time. Figure four provides a list of students who have accesseda particular reading. Figure 5 (see Appendix A) shows the Tools page where both faculty andstudents can control their ANGEL system and get additional information. Clearly some tools arerestricted for faculty use while others, such as “my grade book,” are of interest

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education - A 10,000' View

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College; John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Jana Goodrich, Pennsylvania State University-Erie; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the interviews and resource review.Knowledge items were defined as either beginning, intermediate, or advanced.The course module team approached the body of knowledge via a search of both traditionaltextbooks and online syllabi16-36. From these resources, the team identified a set of topics andorganized them into a three-tiered structure: core, extended, and optional. The core topics, thosethat the team considered important for most entrepreneurship courses, were further sorted intofour main groupings: general introduction and skills, stage one (product ideas and conceptdevelopment), stage two (business evaluation, planning, and pre-production), and stage three (thebusiness plan).During and following the summer meeting, the core competency