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Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective
EDU A132

Course Information

Description

This project-based course supports students in designing a sustainable educational enterprise. Over the course of the semester, participants develop a viable education venture to improve educational opportunity. The course involves a series of activities and experiential workshops that walk students through the building blocks of creating an educational enterprise. Readings, discussions, conversations with guest speakers, and related activities examine the contributions of social entrepreneurs to expanding educational opportunity around the world. Students engage in weekly conversations with exemplary education entrepreneurs working domestically or internationally. Weekly discussion sections include workshops to build targeted skill sets. Students present their final work at an exhibition where they receive feedback from peers and from other entrepreneurs.

Class Notes

For students in the ELOE program, this course fulfills the ELOE Program Core Experience (PCE) requirement if taken for a letter grade. It may also be taken as an elective. While fulfilling the ELOE requirement, the course is open to all students, with no enrollment preference given to ELOE students.

School Graduate School of Education
Credits 4
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Department Education
Course Component Regular Course
Instruction Mode In Person
Subject Education
Grading Basis HGSE Student Option (Letter Graded, Sat/Unsat)
Learning Goals Students will understand how educational innovation can address key educational challenges and the contributions education entrepreneurs make to innovation and to disrupting education globally. They will learn to analyze and create a theory of action and the business model of a social enterprise, critically analyze the organization design of entrepreneurial ventures, and design their own educational venture.
Career Focus This hands-on, project-based, course is appropriate for students in all programs with an interest in the role of educational innovation and in working in or founding an educational enterprise or in supporting educational innovation through various roles.  Through mentoring and course activities, students will gain an understanding of the building blocks of enterprise creation. Students will have the opportunity to discuss with other founders their experience creating successful education ventures to better understand potential career trajectories of education entrepreneurs.