Summary

Method which combines three key areas in an online learning environment, intercultural, intergenerational, and interdisciplinary. Students share online classes with leaders from education, business, and public administration, discover differing perspectives by age, and learn with others from different countries. Entrepreneurship is a process which leads to innovative solutions using available resources. Students are engaged to seek opportunities and problem solve to find real solutions within corporations, nonprofits organizations, and governmental agencies. Graduates are motivated to find new ideas within their professions while collaborating within other disciplines to bring these ideas to fruition. The international Study Tour in Italy at the Bernelli Education Centre is where students apply entrepreneurial learning in an action-based cross cultural experience. Students study methods of operation of local leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs including educators and public administrators while preparing case studies. Masters and Doctorate degrees are offered in all three disciplines. Bernelli University welcomes students and faculty from other institutions to join the experience in Italy. As Bernelli students join together from countries around the world, each one brings a unique cultural background which becomes the foundation to the Bernelli learning experience. The Bernelli programming is grounded in cognitive entrepreneurial theory and integrates the critical components of adult learning theory. The weaving of adult learning theory through the cognitive entrepreneurial theory creates the backdrop to the five stages of entrepreneurial learning at Bernelli University. The goal is to create entrepreneurial leaders of the future who accept the responsibility to help solve socioeconomic challenges for the betterment of humankind