Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module, participants will be able to:
1. Demonstrate broad and critical understanding of entrepreneurial thinking and its relevance to teaching practice, student learning, and educational change
2. Identify and apply established approaches for cultivating entrepreneurial mindsets in themselves and in their learners across a range of educational contexts
3. Reframe complex problems as opportunities for value creation, developing the disposition to see possibility where others see constraint
4. Design and deliver learning experiences that generate entrepreneurial thinking and real-world problem-solving capacity in a multidisciplinary environment
5. Apply iterative, feedback-driven processes to develop, test, and refine ideas from initial concept through to a viable and considered response
6. Make purposeful decisions and take confident action in conditions of uncertainty, ambiguity, and incomplete information
7. Engage and mobilise others to progress an opportunity, drawing on interpersonal, collaborative, and communication skills developed through group and project work
8. Reflect critically on personal development as an entrepreneurial practitioner and articulate the implications for their own teaching and institutional practice
Indicative Module Content:
Entrepreneurial mindset and identity: What it means to think and act entrepreneurially, the relationship between mindset and behaviour, personal values and drivers, and developing confidence as an entrepreneurial practitioner in an educational context.
Opportunity recognition and reframing: Identifying and reframing challenges as opportunities, moving from problem-focused to possibility-focused thinking, and developing the habit of seeing potential where others see constraint.
Innovation in educational contexts: How innovation happens within educational institutions, the conditions that enable and inhibit it, intrapreneurship as a change strategy, and the role of educators as agents of institutional change.
Idea development and iteration: Moving from initial idea to tested concept, embracing uncertainty and ambiguity, intentional iteration based on feedback, and building the tolerance for experimentation that entrepreneurial practice requires.
Validation and evidence-informed action: Testing assumptions, gathering meaningful feedback, making decisions under uncertainty, and developing the capacity to move forward with conviction while remaining open to learning.
Engaging others and building momentum: Communicating ideas compellingly, influencing without authority, building coalitions for change, and understanding the social and relational dimensions of leading innovation in educational settings.
Designing entrepreneurial learning experiences: Bringing entrepreneurial and challenge-based approaches into the classroom, designing for real-world relevance and learner agency, and equipping students with the dispositions and skills for an uncertain future.
Reflective practice and personal development: Critical reflection on entrepreneurial experience, developing a personal theory of change, and sustaining entrepreneurial thinking as a long-term professional practice.