ERIC Number: EJ774579
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Aug
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-8756-3894
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A Task-Centered Approach to Entrepreneurship
Mendenhall, Anne; Buhanan, Caixia Wu; Suhaka, Michael; Mills, Gordon; Gibson, Gregory V.; Merrill, M. David
TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, v50 n4 p84-89 Aug 2006
Brigham Young University (BYU)-Hawaii has a student body of approximately 2,400 students representing 70 different countries. Almost half of this student body is international, representing many different cultures and languages. One of the biggest challenges for BYU-Hawaii is return-ability; that is, the university does not want to be a stepping stone for immigration to the United States. The university is striving instead to provide an education to these young people that will facilitate their productive return to their home countries. The goal of the Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship (CIE) is to prepare students to return home and start small businesses that will not only provide for their families but will also enable them to employ others. The Center for Instructional Technology and Outreach (CITO) at BYU-Hawaii was established with two primary missions: first, to help the faculty of BYU-Hawaii to provide more effective instruction and second, to assist the faculty of BYU-Hawaii to put their courses on-line for delivery to students prior to their coming to the university so that the university can accommodate more of the young people in their target area. CIE director, Gregory Gibson, contacted CITO with a proposal for an on-line course in "Entrepreneurship for Non-Business Majors." The existing program consisted of a series of a business core of six short courses representing what the CIE believed to be the most important steps in starting a business. CITO was able not only to help CIE put their Entrepreneurship course on-line but to also implement an innovative problem-centered approach to this instruction. The authors briefly describe this project and their approach in this portfolio. (Contains 8 figures.)
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Small Businesses, Educational Technology, Entrepreneurship, Student Attitudes, Pacific Islanders
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hawaii; United States
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