Work-Based Learning as Good Practice in Becoming an Entrepreneur

Work based learning, WBL and Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education

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November 20, 2017

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Learning entrepreneurship in a real world environment can bridge the gap between traditional classroom instruction and idea driven product and service development. It’s a business effective approach that achieves measurable results. Traditional education, typified by mastery of facts and evaluation by testing, can morph into creative, research inspired solutions that fulfill public and private organizational needs. Success is irrefutable, measured by tangible results. In work based learning, students can use industry standard technologies and collaborate with mentors, clients and customers. They can work as individuals and in teams, with their entrepreneurial education beginning as early as elementary school. In the process, students learn to be motivated by their own achievements rather than grades. They learn to engage in creative problem solving based upon current data, and to measure their ability to deal with challenge and failure through an iterative process of problem solving.

Two case studies are provided that demonstrates how entrepreneurial education serves to strengthen economies and improve communities.