Entrepreneur course: a task-centered online course teaching business startup to non-business majors¶

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Description¶

Developed by Brigham Young University's Center for Instructional Technology and Outreach, the course teaches "the fundamental steps for starting a business to non-business majors in developing countries." "The whole task involves six steps: (1) Identify a business opportunity, (2) Define the idea, (3) Identify resources, (4) Acquire resources, (5) Start your business, and (6) Manage your business." It is organized around scenarios for five real-world businesses of increasing complexity, with information in a left window and portrayals in a right window, and learners apply properties to new businesses with audio feedback.

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Requirements¶

• The course requires a progression of whole business scenarios, each a worked example, with the final business serving as an application without further demonstration.

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Target Learners¶

• non-business majors in developing countries

Target Learning Goals¶

• learning the fundamental steps for starting a business

Claims¶

• In one trial, task-centered Entrepreneur course students analyzed a new business as well as completed business majors [+W]
• Learning varied tasks of the same type enables transfer to unencountered tasks of that type [+W]

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Key Sources¶

• M. David Merrill. (2007). A Task-Centered Instructional Strategy. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 40(1), 5–22. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ826059