Scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is research into teaching, educational practice, and the curriculum. This webinar draws on a cross-university scholarship project involving colleagues from The Open University, Royal Holloway University of London, Westminster University, and Coventry University, to illustrate how scholarship can be used to assess the outcomes of entrepreneurship education and explore the meaning of effectiveness. Universities have made significant investments in entrepreneurship programs for decades, but the scope, relevance, and usefulness of entrepreneurship education are still questioned. Two World Café events, a participatory action research method designed to elicit grounded knowledge and capture multiple perspectives in a conversational process, were organized to explore the outcomes of entrepreneurship education. This methodology recognizes both the range of stakeholders involved in entrepreneurship education and the complexity of the issue at hand. Insights from the World Café events highlight the diversity of educational approaches adopted by universities, the complex nature of effectiveness and suggestions of how to measure it, and future trends and challenges. The findings also illustrate the benefits of an evidence-based approach to entrepreneurship education, including a reflection on, first, the reasons for doing scholarship work and, second, the use of evidence from SoTL to enhance entrepreneurship education.
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Dr. Carolin Decker-Lange is a Senior Lecturer in Management and Deputy Director (Business) of SCiLAB, the Scholarship Centre for Innovation in Legal and Business Education at The Open University, UK. Previously she held positions at UWE Bristol Business School, the University of Bremen, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, and Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), where she obtained her PhD and post-doctoral lecture qualification (“Habilitation”). Her research interests include organisational development and change, interorganisational collaboration, and entrepreneurship. Since joining The Open University in 2018, Carolin has been doing scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) with a special focus on entrepreneurship.
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08:00 Los Angeles time
09:00 Mexico City time
11:00 New York time
12:00 Sao Paulo time
15:00 London time
16:00 Berlin time
19:00 Dubai time
20:30 Delhi time
23:00 Beijing time
02:00 Sydney time