ENTREPRENEURSHIP BAROMETER AND E-LEARNING IN TECH STARTUPS CONTEXT

Ihor Katernyak

Abstract


This paper seeks to understand students’ attitude towards entrepreneurship, their intentions to start their own companies, and then to propose improvements in the educational process or university infrastructure in order to develop students’ entrepreneurial behaviour, give them the opportunity to gain experience as startupers. The work is based on the experience of implementing e-learning as a practical part within the course “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in IT”, which is taught to undergraduate students in the department of Electronics and Computer Technology at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. As an underlying method, the“A4 approach” for designing virtual learning environments (Attention, Actualisation, Attraction and Action) was used. An interactive online system “Entrepreneurship Barometer” was developed to monitor students’ knowledge about entrepreneurship and their entrepreneurial mindset.

Our results highlight the importance of project-based e-learning in Tech Startup context as key components in developing entrepreneurial competences, also, for improving students’ attitudes towards entrepreneuring, the value of inter-disciplinary teams during all startup growth phases.

Keywords: e-learning, tech startup, entrepreneuring, entrepreneurship barometer, virtual learning environment.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/eli.15.3

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