- Coneeect is an international network that offers training for entrepreneurship educators to improve entrepreneurship education across Europe. - The training discusses best practices for entrepreneurship education programs, including focusing on developing an entrepreneurial mindset in students rather than just teaching content, and using constructivist pedagogies like problem-based and experiential learning. - The document contrasts teacher-centered vs learner-centered approaches and emphasizes the importance of developing expertise in students through immersive experiences and mentorship.

1. Educating
Entrepreneurship
Educators
Coneeect is an international network of universities that offers
training courses for academic entrepreneurship teachers to
improve the Entrepreneurship Education across Europe.
www.coneeect.eu

2. Coneeect Sofia
Day 1: Why What We Do Works!
Norris Krueger, PhD
Norris.krueger[at]gmail.com
@entrep_thinking
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3. What are we trying to do?
• Why? How?
• What do the very best programs know?
• (Sturgeon’s Law?)
• Great at Entrepreneurship
• Great at Teaching (Theory and Practice)

4. Find the Right Frame:
One Size Does Not Fit All
• Research evidence in EE is scary…
• Lack of theory
• Lack of education theory
• Theory gives us frameworks…
–Impact = f(Pedagogy, Learners, Instructors
and Context.. Including Stage)
–Inputs  Throughputs  Outputs

5. Stages… examples of context
• Lent’s model –
• Ecosystem?
–Human Capital
–Social Capital
–Political Capital
• Engagement/Co-Immersion

6. “Greatest Hits” of Educational Research
• Humans like to learn; humans are good at it!
• Lesson Plans Help  [think I->T->O]
• Action Changes Brains… with the right support
• Cooperative Learning
– “Jigsaw”
• Flipped/inverted
• Authentic Questions
• You Get What You Measure
• Mindset not Surface Knowledge
– Critical developmental experiences
– Problem-based learning
– Non-cognitive >> cognitive

7. Evolution of education
Key Focus of Pedagogy Key Assumption Example of Key Tool
Teacher-centered
Teacher transmits to
passive students
Memorization (lectures on
entrepreneurial facts)
Teaching -centered
Recognizes le arning as a
process
‘Skills & Drills ’
(e.g., writing business
plans)
Learner-centered
Learners have ‘ownership’
of learning
Case studies
(e.g., assessing business
plans)
Learning-centered
Learning is situated,
students & teacher alike
Problem-based learning
(e.g., self-managed field
projects)

8. So what IS the
“entrepreneurial mindset”?
• Learning ABOUT entrepreneurship (content)
Versus?
• Learning to BE/THINK entrepreneurial (mindset)
ANY Mindset….
• Deep cognitive structures – deep anchoring assumptions
• Intent, yes, but potential
• Novice -> Expert

9. Intent?
Specific
Desirabilities
Perceived
Self-efficacy
Perceived
Desirabilities
Propensity to Act Intentions
Perceived
Feasibility

10. Novice  Expert

11. Behaviorism vs
Constructivism
• Yeats?
• Behaviorism?
• Epictetus??
• Social learning
• Situated learning
• Existential learning

12. Keys to constructivistic
learning
• Authentic Questions; Big Questions
• Co-Learning
• Personal reflection
• Peer support (peer mentoring)
• Expert mentoring (need a chess master!)
• Immersion in experience
• Co-immersion in ecosystem

13. Best programs in the world?
What do THEY do?
• Virtually none are university-based but…
– Chalmers, Stanford, Aalto…
– Venture creation programs
• Don’t incubate, accelerate?
– Startup Weekend
– Lean startup
– TechStars, et al. /Global Accelerator Network
– Y-Combinator /500 Startups /etc.