What are Entrepreneurial Experiential Exercises?

There are many teaching methods within Entrepreneurship that educators can use to teach their students about entrepreneurship, small business management and new venture creation. The class exercises, games, projects, and experiments that instructors create to help assist in their teaching are called entrepreneurial experiential exercises.

The 3E-Learning.org site is a community site designed to collect and disseminate these entrepreneurial experiential exercises to other instructors.

Who manages this site?

The George Washington University Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CFEE) developed the web site and its content. The mission of the CFEE is to promote research and other scholarly activities that make significant contributions to the fields of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership, Family Enterprise, and Emerging Business Development (SME Development). GW-CFEE will be managing the national and international competitions in order to finding the best entrepreneurial exercises.

Idea submissions are open to any educator, practitioner or researcher and the judging of these ideas for awards will be done by a national panel of renowned educators in the field of entrepreneurship. All ideas are the intellectual property of the person submitting them.

Why is there a username and password section on the site?

Any person submitting an idea to 3E-Learning.org will need to register and create a profile. The profile is needed to allow the user to access their account and add/modify/delete the idea(s) they submitted. All profile information is confidential and will only be used for the purposes of 3E Learning. The 3E-Learning site team will occasionally email the members with updates and award announcements.

What are the judging criteria for the competition?

The judging criteria for all ideas are as follows:

Innovation (30 points: 15/15)
(1) Is this idea innovative?
(2) Does this idea allow more than one way to do things or more than one answer to a question?

Critical Thinking (30 points: 10/10/10)
(3) Does this idea promote problem-solving abilities and/or integrate theory into practice?
(4) Does this idea reveal how students can solve problems (ways), not just arrive at the final answer (means)?
(5) Does this idea promote transference and dealing with ambiguity by presenting tasks that requires students to intelligently adapt modifiable learning tools?

Theoretical Foundations (20 points: 10/5/5)
(6) To what extent does this idea require students to enhance their understanding of the theory?
(7) Does this idea build on the theoretical foundations of one or more aspects of entrepreneurship, providing a context for learning and enhancing retention, meaning, and aesthetic appreciation?
(8) Is this idea applicable to multiple academic fields (Finance, Marketing, etc.)?

Other (20 points: 20)
(9) Can this idea be easily replicated?

When will the winners be announced?

10 Finalists from Round 1 will be asked to present their idea during the USASBE 2013 Annual Conference in San Francisco, California. Winners will be announced at the USASBE Annual Awards Ceremony. Visit www.usasbe.org for more information on attendance.