Course Description
Systematically assessing the viability of your ideas is an integral requirement for any career path - not only for those embarking an entrepreneurial career. The eChallenge is a course designed to offer students a chance to develop ideas based on their experience, develop innovative solutions using creative strategies, test ideas by interacting with customers, mentors, and industry practitioners, and finally pitch their ideas to an audience. The course is the first step into entrepreneurship for many who have gone on to great entrepreneurial endeavours, as well as an enriching personal learning experience for all.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and evaluated a potential entrepreneurial or change management opportunity using a systematic process.
- Determine a practical resourcing strategy to exploit the opportunity in an innovative manner.
- Build an effective entrepreneurial team to develop strategies to exploit the opportunity.
- Communicate and present the new entrepreneurial venture to relevant stakeholders, including investors."
- Replicate the process of assessing the viability of entrepreneurial opportunities for future endeavours.
Learning Experience
Topics
- Ideas, Opportunities and Team Formation
- Team Strengths and Customer Identification
- Needs Assessment and Communication Skills
- Creating Value and Business Modelling
- Speed Dating with Mentors
- Prototyping
- Marketing
- Venture Showcase
- Market Evaluation & Financing Your Venture
- Value Re-positioning
- Pitch Coaching for Semi-Finals
- Semi-Finals
Development Team
Manjula Dissanayake
Course Author
Lead
Sabina Zeynalova
Course Author
Collaborator
Andrew Gardner
Course Author
Collaborator
Jonno Klynsmith
Learning Designer
Lead
Jack Eames
Digital Education Developer
Lead
Assessments
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Needs Assessment Report
Report
Learners develop a Landscape Assessment Report, designed to verify that their ideas presents a valid, explorable opportunity.
30%
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Empathy Interviews
Interview
This assessment has been designed for learners to demonstrate their capacity and ability to empathetically and individually engage people and test their idea.
30%
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Pitching Your Idea
Online presentation
Learners pitch their opportunity to a live online panel of adjudicators. After the presentation learners respond to questions about their idea from the panelists, demonstrating their investigation and understanding of the opportunity.
30%
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Reflective Development Portfolio
Portfolio
The portfolio captures the weekly excercises learners complete each week in the course, capturing their unique learning journey and exploration of their ideas througout the course.
10%