Summary: Online Teaching and Entrepreneurship

One of the great concerns about the subject of entrepreneurship is that can it be taught? Entrepreneurship is defined as risk taking activity that results in a new venture. They say the practice of risk taking cannot be taught, but as instructor of Entrepreneurship I say that it can be taught properly if the three domains of learning are involved, the cognitive, affective and psycho-motor.

For me, online teaching provides a good avenue for the instruction of entrepreneurship. Since entrepreneurship requires innovation and creativity, the most suitable approach to encourage this is through the role of a facilitator. Successful entrepreneurs are often drop outs of the traditional educational system. Traditional educational system tends to stifle creativity and innovation with the more emphasis on blind obedience as opposed to enlightened compliance to rules and processes, to hierarchical organizations as opposed to organic organizations that are flexible to change. So it is not surprise that often innovators and change makers choose to abandon traditional educational school in favor of the unknown. However, not all is lost in our educational systems. The focus on outcomes based approach, active learning and social constructivism are factors that encourage and harness the development of entrepreneurship that values creative thinking and innovation. With online platforms that encourage individual and group thinking group collaboration etc. Teaching entrepreneurship is possible. It’s always about the right content, the right teaching approach in addition to technology that determines a successful online class.