Creative-thinking exercises for entrepeneurship class is a text-based PDF that contains four exercises with accompanying teaching notes. The basic topics for the exercises are games, nature, works of art, and geography. Each exercise will not initially appear to be directly related to entrepreneurship. Because none of the exercises appear to be directly related to entrepreneurship, the instructor will need to explains how each exercise is related to opportunities for selling products and services. It is recommended that students complete the exercises prior to the instructor's explanations. Overall, this is a good product to challenge students of business strategy or entrepreneurship to think creatively when addressing issues.
Type of Material:
Collection
Recommended Uses:
The learning material can be used in-class with an instructor tying the concepts to entrepeneurship. The exercises can be used as a brief introduction to entrepreneurial concepts or be used to launch an in-class discussion. The exercises could also be used as an icebreaker for an entrepreneurship class, either at the beginning of the term or to introduce chapters or concepts during the term.
The learning material can be used in-class with an instructor tying the concepts to entrepeneurship. The exercises can be used as a brief introduction to entrepreneurial concepts or be used to launch an in-class discussion. The exercises could also be used as an icebreaker for an entrepreneurship class, either at the beginning of the term or to introduce chapters or concepts during the term.
Technical Requirements:
Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, PDF rreader
Identify Major Learning Goals:
After using this learning material, learners will able to:
to explain the concept of opportunity recognition
to notice the ways that topics and contexts are related to entrepreneurship
to demonstrate how alertness to the external environment allows an identify business ideas and
to solve problems in a variety of contexts.
to gain practice in addressing issues from unique perspectives.
Target Student Population:
Upper-level business students
Upper-level management students
Graduate students in business
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Entrepreneurship
Economics
Financial management
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The exercises are concise.
The learning material is supported by appropriate research and has a reference list.
The exercises can be used in different situations.
The teaching notes give professors many different topics/concepts they can choose from to link the activity to an element of entrepreneurship.
Concerns:
The business cases presented are neither complex nor inherently linked to business strategy or entrepreneurship.
The professor will need to select a handful of teaching concepts to align with them and be very clear about how the assignment links to the concepts.
The professor will also need to direct the discussion to keep it focused on the selected concepts.
The exercises are not clearly linked to entrepreneurship and require cultural knowledge to complete (i.e. names of flowers, games, art, airports, location of national parks).
Context is also needed to understand the purpose of the exercises and the Teaching Notes section, which integrates the concept is recommended to be used after the exercises.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The learning objectives are identified.
The exercises are efficient and can be integrated into curriculum assignments with additional contextual information.
This teaching material is not designed to be handed out to students. The low score is not related to the effectiveness of the materials; many of the scored elements in this section are not present in the product because it is designed to be 'consumed' by a professor versus a student.
The potential effectiveness is predicated on how effective the professor is at helping students make the connection between the activity and course learning objectives. However, the author provides multiple concepts that each of the activities can be linked to.
Concerns:
This is a course activity that requires a bit of thought to determine which learning objectives the professor wants to highlight.
This is not a good choice for professors looking for a plug-and-play case study.
Prerequisite knowledge of botany, theater, games, geography, and transportation was not identified.
Entrepreneurship concepts are not apparent when completing the exercises without teacher intervention.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The instructions for use are clear.
The exercises are designed to be interactive and engaging. The text is able to be read aloud for accessibility.
Activities are outlined in the document and include teaching notes describing how to implement this in the classroom.
Concerns:
The learning material is text-based.
The colored water-mark in the background is distracting and it is also not ADA compliant.
Creative Commons:
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