W03.2: A Game with Three Pitches
If you really were an Educational Venture Analyst, as you are now emulating, you would spend a significant portion of your time responding to “pitches” from people who have ventures they want you to support. A good entrepreneur needs to be instantly and professionally prepared to present three different kinds of pitch, and you need […]
W03.3: Deconstructing a Pitch
The Content For educators, a brilliant feature of pitches, especially 8-12 minute Venture Pitches, is that they are perfect learning objects. They’re condensed diamonds with their most critical facets on display. For EVAs this makes critical analysis easy: any facet that is missing, deeply flawed or irrelevant is immediately apparent. Venture Pitches should display all […]
W04.1: Entrepreneur Bootcamp
Entrepreneurs, IP and Emergence Now that you’ve taken your first steps as a venture analyst, we want you to lace up as a venture creator. The territory is the same, but the skills and perspectives are remarkably different. Let’s start with motivation. An “entrepreneur” is someone who undertakes to create or rebuild a venture, […]
W04.2: Venture Genesis
Business Models A learning technology venture can adopt so many forms that categorizing them all is a daunting task. Within the scope of ETEC 522 there are companies, societies, foundations, institutions, associations, programs, and projects, to name a few. The remarkable thing is that the “business” concepts that we explore in this course generally apply […]
W04.3: Opportunity Activation
Once you decide to create a venture you might be surprised to discover how many individuals, resources and organizations are ready to help you do exactly that. New ventures are recognized in most countries of the world as the best engine for economic growth, so lots of attention is directed to the cultivation of new […]
W04.4: The Right Stuff
An Ultimate Learning Experience Every new venture is a humbling, scary, and intensely fulfilling learning experience. It is an entirely learner-driven journey. And, almost by definition, there are no textbooks available to guide your way. Educators know that the quality of any learning experience is enhanced by the quality of the people involved. So the […]
W1: Emerging Markets Poll
Instructions Find the “Emerging Markets” category in the course menu. The listed posts are brief individual statements about currently emerging learning technologies. These have all been excerpted from very recent professional research reports which have predicted that these are the most important emerging technologies for educators to take notice of. We want to know if […]
W2: Opportunity Horizon
Purpose Expert market predictions are a lot like fast foods – there’s an unaccountable appetite for them relative to their questionable nutritional value. Given there’s no apparently healthy way to taste the future, are they better than nothing? Each of the reports in the Market Projections forum attempt to look at the future through a […]
W3: Pitch Critique
Purpose Exploring real-world elevator pitches, and practicing EVA role-playing, in the 522 Pitch Pool. Discussion Your job here is to critically analyse elevator pitches based on the pitch criteria introduced in “Deconstructing a Pitch” section of the course materials. Nobody is suggesting that any of these pitches are good or great – you’ll need to figure that […]
W4: Founders Parade
Purpose Do you have what it takes to be a learning technologies entrepreneur? The purpose of this activity is to get beyond speculation by walking in the shoes of a real entrepreneur. You will select a learning technologies venture and find out who its leader is, making sure they are also a founder of the […]