Education and Teaching

Education and Teaching articles seek to improve entrepreneurial education through sharing new teaching methods, exercises, simulations, course structures, etc. The article should focus on communicating best practices in the classroom. Its emphasis is on providing new skills, knowledge and insights to educators at all levels (K-12, Community College, Undergraduate and Graduate)

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Online Mentorship and Teamwork Best Practices

This resource is meant to help educators interested in adding mentorship or team-based exercises to their courses, especially when teaching online. The context here is my entrepreneurship MOOC on Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Charles Eesley

The $10 Business Plan Competition

This exercise is a semester-long project that gives students the opportunity to experience the excitement and challenges associated with identifying an opportunity, developing a startup plan and Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Lou Marino and Craig Armstrong

Coin Toss Game Examines Interplay of Skill and Fate

Americans tend to believe that abilities, traits, and efforts help anyone get ahead. This game examines the huge impact of social and economic factors. EDITOR'S NOTE: Click here to play an online Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure: Parallels to Entrepreneurship

A short documentary film, "Shackleston's Antarctic Adventure," is a useful resource for teaching and studying entrepreneurship. This documentary follows the daring real-life exploits of Sir Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Yasuhiro (Yasu) Yamakawa

Building Blocks of Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

These key building blocks can guide the ongoing development of entrepreneurship programs, improving their quality and substance. Over the past 25 years, university academic programs devoted to Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Michael Morris

Retooling Products to Reach New Markets: The Lindt Candy Dilemma

The purpose of this exercise is to help entrepreneurship students understand the importance of retooling products to reach new markets. In this exercise students are required to generate and then Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Teaching Innovation with the Film 'Objectified'

The film examines the role of tangible, non-living everyday objects - from chairs to computers to toothbrushes - and the people who design them. I'd like to recommend the film Objectified as a useful Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Daniel Forbes

Shifting Entrepreneurial Thinking Into High Gear

Students and teachers can use the Business Model Canvas to describe, organize and design a business model for an entrepreneurial venture or a business development opportunity in an existing Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Mark Spriggs

Turning Good Business Presentations Into Great Ones

It doesn't work if a presentation is 95% perfect, but if the remaining 5% includes a "show stopper" that signals that the idea or the team behind it just won't make it in the real world. We've all Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Joan Moser

Why You Should Court Failure

Andrea Waltz, author of " Go for No !," talks about why you should never settle for yes. From LensCrafters employee to successful entrepreneur and top selling Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Brian Benson