An Experience in Transforming Teaching and Learning Practices in Technology Entrepreneurship Course

AbstractTechnology entrepreneurship is one of the core courses for senior students at the Faculty of Information Science and Technology. Through this course, students are introduced into the concepts and the theories of technology entrepreneurship in current business environment. This paper describes the transformations that have been done on the teaching and learning processes for this course in the past years. The two major problems in teaching are students’ mind-set about entrepreneurship and how this course is related to other technology courses. In learning, the course has undergone several transformations to ensure effective learning and becomes more student-centred. In the initial stage, this course is conducted based on lectures and exams. This approach is difficult for the students since they do not have any business background. In the next stage, this course involved group projects where the students were proposed to study on successful entrepreneurs. Consequently, the students were required to do an in-depth interview with technology entrepreneurs. For the next stage, the students were guided to start online web-based entrepreneurship projects. Based on our experiences in teaching and implementing multi stages transformation in the technology entrepreneurship course, we conclude that the students learn best through interviews and web-based projects. We also conclude that the focus in technology entrepreneurship course should be in the processes of being an entrepreneur, and not on the end result like exams or written assignments