Entrepreneurial Enterprises
What steps might one take to teach digital skills and entrepreneurship within a distance education environment? Be specific about which page or pages in chapter three that you are basing your thinking on. Use the Comments link for your contributions.Keep in the back of your mind the thought that the distance education environment might be also becoming a metaphor for functioning as a business in cyberspace.
posted by Bob Houghton @ 10:32 AM
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I think that a great way to combine both digital and entrepreneurial skills in a distance education environment would be through adaptation of everyday business tasks. Businesses have to expand everyday and do more of the traditional face-to-face work in electronic form and many times in a distance form. For example, chapter three discusses job interviews. Why not use the voice chat feature of WebCT to stage a conference call interview. Once this is completed, discuss the differences in this type of interview versus the traditional face-to-face. Do you feel as confident making a hiring decision on this candidate based on this interview as you would if you had met them in person? Can we overcome the weaknesses in this process and if so, how? With this style of interview becoming more common, at least at the initial state, I think this would be a great venture for entrepreneurs to take a crack at.
One thing that is very important that our students understand is the concept of costs versus income, overhead and profit. In my experience, even students that have had a marketing class cannot grasp the idea of profit. Some remember the terminology which can be improved in an interesting way using the Bingo Lingo activity.
The Break Even activity on pages 22-23 is a good activity ot reinforce these concepts. The mathematics of running a business is an important concept for young entrepreneurs to understand.
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