Online course: Advancing Excellence in Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship Education (September 2024)
2024-09-20 - 2024-11-08
The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education are delighted to announce that the fully online Open Course Advancing Excellence in Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship Education will run from September 2024. This course has been developed in partnership with MTU’s Hincks Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence.
This free 7 week course is available to all staff currently working in tertiary education in the Republic of Ireland, subject to availability of places. Additional facilitator training is included so that you can become a facilitator of this course and run it in your own institution. A further commitment of five learner hours will be required for the facilitator add-on, in addition to attendance at two extra webinars over 2 weeks.
Course Schedule

Advancing Excellence Schedule

Date
Week
Webinar
Facilitator

20.09.24 or 24/09/2024
Week 1
Friday 14:00-14:30 or
Tuesday 14:00-14:30
Ana Cruz García

27.09.24
Week 2
Friday 14:00-15:00
Ana Cruz García

04.10.24
Week 3
Friday 14:00-15:00
Ana Cruz García & Niall O’Leary

11.10.24
Week 4
Friday 14:00-15:00
Ana Cruz García & Helen McGuirk

18.10.24
Week 5
Friday 14:00-15:00
Ana Cruz García & Wei Xiong

25.10.24
Week 6
Friday 14:00-15:00
Ana Cruz García & Fiacre Muller

08.11.24
Week 7
Friday 14:00-15:00
Ana Cruz García & Rebecca Robinson

Learning Outcomes

Reflect on how entrepreneurship practices in different topics can be introduced in an educational context and how they can be best assessed.
Build knowledge of other non-traditional types of entrepreneurs (women, young, seniors), diverse industries/sectors (arts, environmental sciences…) and methods of validating entrepreneurship.
Critically assess how the research on the different entrepreneurship forms can enrich entrepreneurship educational practices.

Learning Activities

Activity
Per week
Seven Weeks

Online meeting
60 min
6 hours

Triad meeting
60 min
6 hours

Directed and independent learning
120 min
12 hours

Total
250 min
24 hours

& standalone introduction (60 mins)

25 hours

Content

Indicative content
Facilitator/Guest speaker

Introduction and triad allocation
Ana Cruz Garcia

Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Ana Cruz Garcia

Increasing success rates with improved decision making tools
Ana Cruz García & Niall O’Leary

Opportunities in the Silver Economies
Ana Cruz García & Helen McGuirk

Entrepreneurship in the Marine Sector
Ana Cruz García & Wei Xiong

Entrepreneurship for Creative Industries
Ana Cruz García & Fiacre Muller

Youth Entrepreneurship
Ana Cruz García & Rebecca Robinson

Registration
Registration is closed.
For more information, email Dr Ana Cruz Garcia – ana.cruzgarcia@mtu.ie.
