Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Enterprise

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Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Enterprise
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National CETL Initiative

• HEFCE 2004
• The purpose of CETLs is to reward excellent
  teaching practice and to invest in that practice
  further in order to increase and deepen its
  impact across a wider teaching and learning
  community.

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Why Graduate Enterprise? National Drivers

• Changes in HEI sector
• Enterprise in Higher Education 1980s
• Dearing 1997
• Lambert 2003
• UK SEC 99
• Non SEC such as YF Business Start-Up
• National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship
  2004 -

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Why is enterprise important in HE?

• Progression and achievement
• Redefine and improve skills for learning
• Enhance employability
• Self employment, business start up, employment
• Curriculum enhancement
• Changing the approach to learning and teaching
• Recruitment
• Commercial opportunities
• Spin-offs from research, patents and licensing
• Changing culture and aspirations
• National, regional, sub-regional, institutional
• Individual mindset and attitude

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Nottingham integrative learning

• Fostering students abilities to integrate
  learning across courses, over time, and between
  campus and community life is one of the most
  important goals and challenges of higher
  education
• Carnegie Foundation, 2004

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Entrepreneurship and Business

• Formal lectures
• 6 stage creative problem solving process
• Mentored group work Practitioners/local
  business people
• Learning Barometer On-line reflective
  learning log
• Concept poster presentation and elevator pitch
• WIN2 evaluation (optional)

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2006 - 2007

• University wide expansion
• Scale Entrepreneurship and Business -Numbers
  rise to ? 800 or more (core to all NUBS students)
• New Venture Creation - Numbers ? 450 (Management
  Core)
• Scale Active Mentornet rises to 40 or more

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2007 -

• Fully scaleable module to expand with demand
• All disciplines involved
• Numbers accelerate past 1000
• Mentornet gt50

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White Rose CETLE
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WHITE ROSE CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE TEACHING
AND LEARNING OF ENTERPRISE

• The WR CETL Enterprise on three sites will
• Help students to learn more about enterprise as
  it relates to their degree programme
• provide students with options through practical
  placements
• enhance and stimulate extra-curricular learning
• offer an option for channelling enthusiasm and
  motivation into reduced risk start-up activity

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• Engage in enterprise research
• provide enterprise teaching resources and support
  to all staff within the consortium
• provide students with real and simulated
  interdisciplinary business experience using the
  micro-incubator and a business simulator
• reward demonstrated excellence by teaching staff

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Enterprise Zones

• provide a focal point for students, researchers
  and staff interested in enterprise
• provide a teaching resource
• provide a resource for collaborative enterprise
  activities between the consortium institutions
• provide a location for lunchtime and evening
  events (individual or networked)
• provide a home for the Enterprise Clubs
• provide micro-incubator space

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Developing embedded curriculum materials

• Innocence Project for Law Students
• Recent Graduate Start ups - students inspiring
  students
• The science of school design linking
  engineers with teachers and learners
• Textiles Embedding design enterprise across
  three years
• Running a business - SUMSCO

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And

• Bank of cases already available at
  http//www.york.ac.uk/enterprise/cetle/
• Enterprise Network for Staff
• Young Entrepreneurs Society
• Research agenda

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Enterprise in the Curriculum an institutional
approach

• As part of the Embedding, Enhancing and
  Integrating Employability CETL.

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• Employability Framework
• Development of intellectual, subject and Key
  Skills
• Progressive development of autonomy
• Including activities that are similar to those to
  be found externally
• Reflection on use of skills and knowledge between
  contexts
• Personal Development Planning (reflection on
  performance action planning)
• Career management skills (self awareness
  opportunity awareness decision making
  transition)
• Learning from work
• Professional skills/competences etc
• Enterprise

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• We aim to offer all our students at SHU access to
  curricular activities that will make them all
  more enterprising not necessarily more
  entrepreneurial.
• Extra-curricular activities focus on developing
  the entrepreneurs

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• Leadership years 1, 2 4 L2L
  http//www.learntolead.org/
• Business Planning year 2 (4) IBM
  http//www.learningdynamics.co.uk
• Business development Hatchery all
• Enterprise Challenge anybody
• Enterprise week w/c 14 November all
• Business surgeries Thursdays 11-2 all
• Student society E-Soc - all
• Placements STEP year 2

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Future Developments

• To establish a community of trading ventures that
  can exist as either real or virtual entities and
  to offer students access to appropriate work
  related learning.
• These will be regulated within a realistic
  community that offers access to both accredited
  and non-accredited learning that will give an
  opportunity to practise the career life choices
  each student will make.
• It will also provide the University with a
  resource to attract external funding, real world
  consultancy projects and a strong link to the
  network of local small to medium enterprises.

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• To make Leeds Metropolitan University the first
  choice for students seeking enterprise teaching
  and learning across the whole range of academic
  disciplines offered.

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Curriculum Change

• Through Staff Development
• Quick wins for curriculum change
• Workshops / Events / Enterprise Awards
• Induction Programme
• Long Term Sustainable Changes
• Top-up / FD in Enterprise
• Masters in Enterprise
• Innovation North Faculty

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Curriculum change IT Foundation degree

• Entrepreneurial attitudes, attributes, behaviours
  and skills
• 3 week module (337 students 31 staff)
• Tender as a Consultancy (student team)
• Identify business problems
• Award contract to most enterprising team

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Entrepreneurial behaviours (Gibb)

• Creative problem solving
• Manage autonomously
• See things through
• Network effectively
• Put things together creatively
• 85 positive feedback

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Future Developments

• Curriculum Change Leeds Met
• National agenda for TL
• Towards a framework
• Assessing creativity and enterprise
• Higher Education Matrix Materials
• http//www.heacademy.ac.uk/1428.htm

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Matrix 47 teaching materials
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Dissemination Events

• Sharing practice events
• Creativity Subject Centre Physical Sciences
  
• On-line resources Glasgow School of Art
• Show case launch March 2007
• enterprise_at_leedsmet.ac.uk

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Discussion afternoon sessions