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Transforming Education through Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurship
EDU BA040

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Description

***ONLY OFFERED FOR OEL STUDENTS**This course focuses on how leaders in the education sector can take a purpose-driven and entrepreneurial approach to addressing educational challenges. Students will learn to identify opportunities and develop solutions that meet community needs and create social impact.
Students will consider contextual factors that impact the feasibility and viability of their solutions. 
They will learn to:
Identify opportunities and develop purpose-driven entrepreneurial solutions in diverse social contexts.
Balance social missions and impact goals with market requirements.
Build diverse and collaborative teams that prioritize the needs of the audience being served.
Through case studies, readings, workshops, and peer feedback, students will develop the skills to create integrated social-impact business models. Educational challenges may be systemic, impacting the broader sector, or primarily local, impacting a particular community.
By the end of the course, students will have developed and presented a business model for a purpose-driven solution to a specific educational need or problem.

School Graduate School of Education
Credits 2
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Department Education
Course Component Regular Course
Instruction Mode Online
Subject Education
Grading Basis HGSE Student Option (Letter Graded, Sat/Unsat)
Course Requirements Must be an online EdM student
Learning Goals Students will learn to: 1) Identify opportunities and develop purpose-driven entrepreneurial solutions in diverse social contexts. 2) Balance social missions and impact goals with market requirements. 3) Build diverse and collaborative teams and networks that prioritize the needs of the audience being served. 4) Develop a business and/or social-impact model for their solution. Through the course structure and pedagogy students will also develop skills relating to: 1) Active listening 2) Empathy 3) Advocacy and inquiry 4) Providing targeted and constructive feedback
Career Focus <p>This course is designed for OEL students working across all levels of the formal and informal education sector. The course will appeal to those who aspire to design, build and/or lead innovative and equitable initiatives, programs and/or organizations that address a specific need in a diverse context. Whether they come with experience  in large governmental bureaucracies, small independent startups, or anywhere in between, this course will introduce students to the considerations, strategies and processes involved in developing a solution to an identified need. Students enrolling in this course will be able to apply their learning and experiences in entrepreneurial endeavors, where they design and build a new organization to address a need, and intrapreneurial work, where they develop new structures, programs and initiatives within an existing organization.</p>