Dec 02, 2014
Engaging Students Across Space and Time
Geoff ArcherJo AxeNovember 4, 2010
Overview
Adult LearningExperiential Exercises
Service LearningEducational Travel
Clubs & Associations
Learning Theory
What do you know about how adults learn?
The Elevator Pitch
How many of you know what an Elevator Pitch is?
Elevator Pitches in TV Shows
BBC's Dragon's Den TV show (UK) , CBC's Dragon's Den (Canadian copycat)
ABC's Shark Tank (U.S. copycat) American Inventor (ABC 2006)
Others?
Elevator Pitches in TV & Movies
Sold, Bought or Processed (Say Anything) 7 Minute abs (Something About Mary)Waffle Cone (Something About Mary)
iToilet (Curb Your Enthusiasm)For Kids (Hudsucker Proxy)Car of Tomorrow (Tucker)
Muffin Tops (Seinfeld)
Others?
Video Elevator Pitches
www.vator.tvhttp://pitches.techcrunch.com/
www.prosper.comContests such as
http://beta.ventureport.org/elevator_pitch_contest.67.html
Tactical Solutions to Putting the Elevator Pitch Online
What are your experience and/or suggestions?
Youtube Vimeo
Everybody can see it or you can delineate user IDs for ‘private’ setting
Allows password protection
Examples from the course
Which one of these is not real?
Lorrainehttp://dspace.royalroads.ca/docs/handle/10170/384
Roy
http://dspace.royalroads.ca/docs/handle/10170/370
Tammy
http://dspace.royalroads.ca/docs/handle/10170/372
Video Elevator Pitch Take-Aways
Enables ContextEncourages Creativity
Good Excuse to learn New TechnologyCaptures Visual Learners
Facilitates Contemplative Exchange
Unanticipated Reversal
The Video Elevator Pitch (developed to include online students in a traditional on-campus
exercise) has so many positive externalities that it will now improve the on-campus
entrepreneurship course
Experiential Exercise
How many of you incorporate some kind of experiential exercise in your courses?
The Venture Challenge
11 year tradition at Royal RoadsTeams of 5 students
$5 Seed Money5 Weeks
Raise max. profits for a charity partner2010 average was >$500 per student
$41k total from 14 teams
How we took it online…
The Venture Challenge
Books for LiteracySelling Used Books to Support
Literacy
Real-World Examples of Mission-Driven E-Commerce
Alliance of Students Against Poverty Artisan Wedding Rings
Baby Teresa
Basabody Donors Choose
Exorcise Cancer Figs
Filt Waste Oil Candles Goodshop Kidonaki
The New Masters of Fantasy Procrasdonate
Rideshark The Sustainable Village
Alliance of Students Against Poverty Artisan Wedding Rings
Baby TeresaBasabody
Donors ChooseExorcise Cancer
FigsFilt Waste Oil Candles
Goodshop Kidonaki
The New Masters of Fantasy Procrasdonate
Rideshark The Sustainable Village
Mission
The 'mission' you adopt is up to you. Here are two examples of very different reasons to purchase livestock online: Heifer International would have you buy a
goat to help a (human) family in need. The WWF (World Wildlife Fund) wants you
to buy a goat to help a leopard. What is important to your team? Is there a charitable organization whose work you would like to support?
Business ModelYour team will design the business model that you implement. Many different business models might support the same mission. For example, Kashless keeps used items (sofas, baby toys, flower pots, etc.) out of the landfill by connecting them with new owners. Babyplays keeps toys out of the
landfill by offering a rental service.
Profit-Orientation
Although 100% of your profit from this one month of business needs to be donated to a
charity, the future business investment opportunity that you present on September 21 can be either a for-profit or a non-profit
venture. This choice of corporate structure is up to you and your team. Notably,
www.microplace.com and www.kiva.org do roughly the same thing - connecting
microfinance lenders and borrowers. Kiva is a non-profit, whereas microplace is owned
by eBay (and is obviously not a non-profit!).
Assessment
10/30 for website DESIGN - this aspect of the course is evaluated by Tracy as my CTET Partner
8/30 for PERFORMANCE – in the future we will have benchmarks to guide this e.g. Profit > $500 = A
12/30 PRESENTATION
Results of the Online Venture Challenge
OVC1 – February, 2010E-commerce was NOT enabled
http://www.wix.com/claurin/lovebug
OVC2 – September, 20109 Teams raised over $7,300 in one month
http://www.floodofgoodwill.com/http://booksforliteracy.blogspot.com/
Added Benefits
Some projects become real businesseswww.govoluntouring.com
Some are spin-in to real organizationshttp://harvestchallenge2010.blogspot.com/
The Online Venture Challenge is a great platform for on-campus students to learn-
by-doing in an organized, more easily auditable way
Nelson Family Microbusiness 3-Phased Program
1. World’s First Microfinanace Business Ideas Competition www.mfbic.org
2. The Microbusiness Experience: East Africa 3. Nelson Family Microbusiness Fellows
How Do We Know Which Ideas are Best Suited for East
Africa?
We Went There and Asked
What percentage of these students are Online students?
Nelson Family Microbusiness Fellows
3 graduating students3 different ideas
3 different business plans100 days in Tanzania
$5000 seed capital for each businessTransitioned to local entrepreneurs
Engaging Online LearnersWhat Other Methods Can We Use?
Educational Travel (a.k.a Field Trips) Clubs (i.e. SIFE and now Real Estate) Faculty ‘on location’ coffee in major Canadian
markets
What are your ideas?