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ICT - based Approaches for Entrepreneurship Education

Authors:
Ileana Hamburg
Sascha Bucksch
Emma O Brien

Keywords: ICT, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship education, Mentor, Problem Based Learning, PBL, TikiWiki

Abstract:
An entrepreneur should be an individual who organises or operates businesses. Entrepreneurship is the art of being entrepreneur and implies creativity, innovation, risk taking and the competence to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives. Entrepreneurship education programmes should offer students the tools to be creative, to solve problems efficiently, to analyse a business idea objectively, and to communicate, cooperate, lead, develop and evaluate projects. Mentoring and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) supported forms of learning like Problem Based Learning (PBL), which could be used in entrepreneurship education. Mentoring supports professional development and increases the mentees opportunities. PBL is suitable for entrepreneurship education, i.e. by presenting properly real problems like “starting a business”. It creates motivation in the students. ICT could improve the efficiency of PBL, but this aspect was not taken into consideration until now. These approaches are used in the on-going European project Erasmus+ “Supporting PBL in entrepreneurial education and in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) through ICT facilitated mentoring – Archimedes”. The authors developed an ICT platform in frame of this project to support PBL, which is shortly described in this paper.

Pages: 88 to 91

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: June 21, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-412-1

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Dates: from June 21, 2015 to June 26, 2015