Engageped - Practical Entrepreneurship Didactics
The course is offered by Engage SFU and is aimed at educators in higher education, PhD students with teaching responsibilities, teachers, course instructors, and others who wish to foster students' creativity and engagement, regardless of discipline or level. Engage – Centre for Engaged Education through Entrepreneurship works to develop and share innovative learning methods that enhance students' creativity, problem-solving, and innovation skills. The center promotes entrepreneurial competencies across disciplines in higher education through pedagogical tools and practice-oriented methods.
Through the course, participants will gain insight into entrepreneurship didactics and have the opportunity to explore practical activities that can be directly integrated into their own teaching.
Entrepreneurship is about empowering people to meet challenges, develop new solutions, and create value across disciplines. Entrepreneurship didactics focuses on how entrepreneurship can be taught through engaging methods that enhance students' creativity, problem-solving abilities, collaboration, initiative, and ability to handle uncertainty. These skills are crucial for developing innovative solutions in the workforce, contributing to sustainable development, and solving complex problems across sectors. Examples of methods used in the course include Design Thinking and prototyping, which teach students how to experiment and develop creative solutions. The course provides insight into how such methods can be applied in teaching to develop students' ability to think innovatively and create new ideas. Engage's pedagogical framework, based on five key elements, provides participants with practical strategies to stimulate entrepreneurial skills in both academic and practical contexts.
Through conversations, discussions, and group work, participants will explore how the course content can be adapted and applied in their own teaching practice. The course combines theory with practical experience, and participants will have the opportunity to test and reflect on concrete teaching methods that can increase student engagement and inspire innovation in teaching.
Read more about Engage SFU here: https://engage-centre.no/
Target audience
Educators in higher education, PhD students with teaching responsibilities, teachers, course instructors, and others who want to develop students' creativity and engagement, regardless of subject area or level.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree of at least 180 ECTS credits. See information on how this is documented.
Ranking: If there are more applicants than study places, qualified applications are ranked according to the time you have documented that you are qualified for the study. Admissions may close for new applications when the study is fully booked.
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
Knowledge
- Have knowledge of key concepts, methods, and tools in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education.
- Understand how entrepreneurial teaching methods can enhance students' creativity, problem-solving skills, and ability to manage uncertainty.
Skills
- Reflect on how entrepreneurship-based teaching methods can contribute to student engagement and innovation in their own discipline.
- Identify, plan for, and reflect on how elements from the Engage framework can be used in their own teaching practice.
General competence
- Develop an understanding of how to create learning activities that stimulate students' collaboration and innovative thinking.
- Be able to inspire and motivate students to take initiative and reflect on their own learning.
Teaching: Total of 13 hours (11 hours in-person + asynchronous teaching online)
Physical session in Bodø on June 11th and 12th:
June 11th 11:00-16:00
June 12th 09:00-15:00
Oral presentation – Pass/Fail
Coursework requirements:
Preparatory work - Individual reflection (200-300 words) or video
Oral Presentation - Group presentation
Wrap-up - Reflection note, maximum 3 pages.
