Principles to Practice:
Enterprise and Enterpreneurship

Outline

The first session will encourage participants to discuss what enterprise means to them, and to explore differences and similarities between enterprise and entrepreneurial education. We will use the  QAA  Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education (2018),  AdvanceHE Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education Framework  (2018) and The European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp) to inform our discussion,  and to identify the extent to which our teaching practices foster enterprise, By the end of this first session, participants will be able to evaluate the advantages and drawbacks of fostering enterprise in the curriculum and put forwards strategies for managing competing expectations. In particular, participants will be encouraged to reflect on how enterprise adds value to the students’ learning and development: what does it enable them to do that they could not do without an enterprise offering?

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Identify three key enterprise attributes (EnterComp framework) that you wish to develop in one of your modules. 

• For each attribute, design activities to foster selected attributes. Explain why and how the activities will improve students' learning.  

• Explain why  some students may not engage with such activities.

• Evaluate the extent to which new learning environments are required to foster these attributes for all students.

Outline

The second session will start by giving participants the opportunity to share and discuss the outcome of their preparation.  This  workshop will focus on the assessment of enterprise in the curriculum.  Participants will be encouraged to reflect on how to create effective learning environments and approaches to foster and assess enterprise. A range of case-studies will be used to illustrate and discuss the merits of different learning objectives (“Learning about” , “learning for/how”, and “learning through”) and corresponding risks in doing so. 

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Using their own modules, participants will understand to what extent enterprise can be assessed, how it can be assessed, why it should be assessed, and what can be done to support students in meeting the marking criteria? 

Outline

The third session will start by giving participants the opportunity to share and discuss the outcome of their preparation.  The workshop will then focus on entrepreneurial education, and evaluate the extent to which entrepreneurial education differs from enterprise education. The session will explore how we can support our students to move from enterprise awareness to mindset and on to capability and effectiveness; how does enterprise and entrepreneurship education improve their future outcomes and how does it help them navigate the future in an uncertain world of employment?

Resources to support this workshop include the University of Portsmouth  Enterprise in the CurriculumToolkit, the ‘Enterprise Educators UK Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education Toolkit’ and  ‘A Compendium of Pedagogies for Teaching Entrepreneurship’.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Discuss and critique the wider value of enterprise and entrepreneurship education

• Communicate the key differences between between enterprise and entrepreneurship education  and how to incorporate these into curriculum

• Practically apply approaches to support the development of entrepreneurial effectiveness as the students move toward completion of their current studies and prepare for the transition into work, self-employment, further study, or other options.

• Capitalise on an understanding how ‘Live’ projects for external clients and enterprises offer opportunities to network and meaningfully engage with external stakeholders, to prepare for this transition.