Why Experiential Learning works! Coneeect Sofia Day 1

Educating

Entrepreneurship

Educators Coneeect is an international network of universities that offers training courses for academic entrepreneurship teachers to improve the Entrepreneurship Education across Europe.

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Coneeect SofiaDay 1: Why What We Do Works!

Norris Krueger, PhDNorris.krueger[at]gmail.com

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What are we trying to do?

• Why? How?

• What do the very best programs know?• (Sturgeon’s Law?)

• Great at Entrepreneurship• Great at Teaching (Theory and Practice)

Find the Right Frame: One Size Does Not Fit All

• Research evidence in EE is scary…• Lack of theory• Lack of education theory• Theory gives us frameworks…

– Impact = f(Pedagogy, Learners, Instructors and Context.. Including Stage)

– Inputs Throughputs Outputs

Stages… examples of context

• Lent’s model –

• Ecosystem?– Human Capital– Social Capital– Political Capital

• Engagement/Co-Immersion

“Greatest Hits” of Educational Research

• Humans like to learn; humans are good at it!• Lesson Plans Help [think I->T->O]• Action Changes Brains… with the right support• Cooperative Learning

– “Jigsaw”• Flipped/inverted• Authentic Questions• You Get What You Measure• Mindset not Surface Knowledge

– Critical developmental experiences– Problem-based learning– Non-cognitive >> cognitive

Evolution of education

K e y F o c u s o f P e d a g o g y K e y A s s u m p tio n E x a m p le o f K e y T o o l

T e a c h e r -c e n te r e d

T e a c h e r tr a n s m its to

p a s s iv e s tu d e n ts

M e m o r iz a tio n ( le c tu r e s o n

e n tr e p r e n e u r ia l f a c ts )

T e a c h in g -c e n te r e d R e c o g n iz e s le a r n in g a s a

p r o c e s s

‘ S k ills & D r ills ’

( e .g . , w r itin g b u s in e s s

p la n s )

L e a r n e r - c e n te r e d L e a r n e r s h a v e ‘ o w n e r s h ip ’

o f le a r n in g

C a s e s tu d ie s

( e .g . , a s s e s s in g b u s in e s s

p la n s )

L e a r n in g - c e n te r e d L e a r n in g is s itu a te d ,

s tu d e n ts & te a c h e r a lik e

P r o b le m - b a s e d le a r n in g

( e .g . , s e lf -m a n a g e d f ie ld

p r o je c ts )

So what IS the “entrepreneurial mindset”?

• Learning ABOUT entrepreneurship (content)Versus?

• Learning to BE/THINK entrepreneurial (mindset)ANY Mindset….

• Deep cognitive structures – deep anchoring assumptions• Intent, yes, but potential• Novice -> Expert

Intent?

Specific Desirabilities

Perceived Self-efficacy

Perceived Desirabilities

Propensity to Act Intentions

Perceived Feasibility

Novice Expert

Behaviorism vs Constructivism

• Yeats?

• Behaviorism?• Epictetus??• Social learning• Situated learning• Existential learning

Keys to constructivistic learning

• Authentic Questions; Big Questions• Co-Learning

• Personal reflection• Peer support (peer mentoring)• Expert mentoring (need a chess master!)

• Immersion in experience• Co-immersion in ecosystem

Best programs in the world? What do THEY do?

• Virtually none are university-based but…– Chalmers, Stanford, Aalto…– Venture creation programs

• Don’t incubate, accelerate?– Startup Weekend– Lean startup– TechStars, et al. /Global Accelerator Network– Y-Combinator /500 Startups /etc.