Abstract
Teaching innovation and entrepreneurship is a challenging task. It requires students to gain an understanding of key terminology and theoretical knowledge as well as practical experience to build transversal skills. This is what is needed to develop a problem-solving and enterprising attitude for the jobs of tomorrow. At doctoral level, educating STEM graduates to become entrepreneurs and digital leaders in the digital transformation era calls for new learning formats and contents. In this paper we present a new design for the EIT Digital Doctoral School Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IE) education and we specifically focus on the online educational components developed to cover key IE content and topics. We present the first results of an evaluation conducted with the students participating in all the courses of the EIT Digital Doctoral School in 2019 and the first impressions and learnings from the new design. We found that the initial feedback was satisfying and that our students appreciated the approach and said that they recommend that instructors use this approach in future teaching. This study contributes to the ongoing debate on how to design and implement IE education leveraging European universities networks.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2020 |
Editors | Alberto Cardoso, Gustavo R. Alves, Teresa Restivo |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Pages | 1662-1668 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728109305 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2020 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
Event | IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference - Porto, Portugal Duration: 27 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020 Conference number: 11 |
Publication series
Name | IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON |
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Volume | 2020-April |
ISSN (Print) | 2165-9559 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2165-9567 |
Conference
Conference | IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference |
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Abbreviated title | EDUCON |
Country/Territory | Portugal |
City | Porto |
Period | 27/04/2020 → 30/04/2020 |
Keywords
- Doctoral Education
- Entrepreneurial Skills
- IE Education
- Instructional Design
- Online Education