(New Initiative) 3E-Social Innovations on
Social Entrepreneurship - Call for Entries
As the field of social entrepreneurship expands, there are many teaching methods within Social Entrepreneurship that educators and practioners can use to teach their students or social entrepreneurs about social entrepreneurship 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 site is a community site designed to collect and disseminate these entrepreneurial experiential exercises to other instructors. The winners will present their innovations at the Skoll World Forum www.skollworldforum.com, March 26-28, 2008 at Oxford University, England and share the innovative teaching ideas with their colleagues and social entrepreneurs. First place will receive a $100 award with the remaining winners receiving recognition at the Skoll World forum and on this website. Submissions are due by 29 February 2008.
For questions regarding your submission, contact Debbi Brock debbi_brock@berea.edu or Roberto Gutiérrez Poveda, robgutie@uniandes.edu.co .
Submit (click here)
What
are Entrepreneurial Experiential Exercises?
There are many teaching methods within Entrepreneurship that educators
can use to teach their students about entrepreneurship, small business
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 site is a community site designed to collect and
disseminate these entrepreneurial experiential exercises to other
instructors.
Who is in charge of this site?
The George Washington University Center
for Entrepreneurial Excellence developed the web site and its
content. The mission of the Center for Family and Entrepreneurial
Enterprises is to promote research and other scholarly activities
that make significant contributions to the fields of Entrepreneurship,
Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Women Entrepreneurial
Leadership, Family Enterprise, and Emerging Business Development
(SME Development). GW-CFEE will be managing the national competition
of 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 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 will be confidential. The 3E-Learning site
team will occasionally email the members with updates and award
announcements.
When will awards be announced for Round 2?
Round 2 is now closed for submissions.
What are the judging criteria for the best
ideas competition?
The judging criteria for all ideas are divided into the following
sections:
Innovation
(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, since real-life situations rarely
have only one correct alternative?
(3) Allow students to choose a form of response with which they
are comfortable.
Critical Thinking
(4) Does this idea reflect real world needs, by increasing students'
problem-solving abilities and ability to construe meaning?
(5) Does this idea reveal how students solve problems, not just
the final answer, since reasoning determines students' ability to
transfer learning?
(6) Does this idea promote transference by presenting tasks that
require students to intelligently adapt modifiable learning tools?
Theoretical Foundations
(7) Does this idea build on the theoretical foundations of the entrepreneurship
intellectual community from which the tasks are derived, thus providing
a context for learning and enhancing retention, meaning, and aesthetic
appreciation.
(8) Does this idea require students to display an understanding
of the theory?
(9) Does this idea fuse other academic fields (Finance, Marketing
etc) to help explain the learning objectives?
Other
(10) Can this Idea be easily replicated?
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