Masterclass
Innovation Centre Denmark in Boston Silicon Valley have teamed up with the Danish
Foundation for Entrepreneurship to host expert instructors from the UC Berkeley
Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology to ‘train the trainers’ at Danish
universities, professional schools and colleges.
Over the course of two intensive days of lectures, breakout sessions and group work
building on tools from the UC Berkeley entrepreneurship curriculum, you will learn
about:
- Teaching students to identify opportunities and build entrepreneurial solutions
- Supporting your students in their journey to test and launch their solutions
About the Course
The course training is based on the instructors' experience teaching Challenge Lab - UC Berkeley's premier project-based entrepreneurship course that takes students through the early steps of the journey of building a new technology venture. The course focuses on the following topic areas:
- Team Formation
- Problem Discovery
- Solution Development
- Customer Discovery
- Value Proposition & Business Models
- Prototypes
- Leadership & Execution
- Customer Acquisition
- Intellectual Property
- Finance & Funding
- Storytelling & Pitching
Instructors will share their experiences and methods of teaching these topics through a variety of methods and frameworks. They will focus on the design and execution of project-based courses as well as best practices in teaching these topics using a variety of techniques designed to address the different learning styles we face in the classroom. Finally, participants will be engaged in games and activities to help them better understand the student's perspective of learning entrepreneurship.
Readings
None of the listings below are required but general knowledge of the concepts will be helpful in our discussions:
- Sprint by Jake Knapp; Read the book or watch this video with the author
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries; Read the book or watch this presentation by Eric Ries
Program
9AM - 4PM
| TOPIC | NOTES |
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Welcome & Agenda |
Getting to know one another. |
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The Case for Entrepreneurship Education (different methods and approaches, but if you want tangible outcomes…. |
Why it is important for students to learn entrepreneurship & innovation skills. Also, a discussion of the different methods of teaching. |
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Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship |
Introduction to the methodology and pedagogy used to teach entrepreneurship at SCET Berkeley. |
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Journey-based Learning & Elements of BMoE
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A more detailed look at the pedagogy including the weekly “teaching ritual”. |
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Lunch |
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Course Design: Challenge Lab as a Use Case |
The importance of course design using SCET Berkeley’s core offering as a use case. |
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Game-based Education |
The use of games and other group activities as a key teaching/learning component. |
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Mentoring |
How to effectively engage and utilize mentors and how to prepare students to be better mentees. |
Note: There will be a homework assignment at the end of Day 1 that will require no more than one hour of work.
9AM - 3PM
| TOPIC | NOTES |
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Homework/Reflection Review |
Sharing our learnings. |
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Creating a creative classroom environment |
How to develop a safe space for creating and failing. |
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Designing and executing games, activities, and associated reflections |
How and when to use games and how to synthesize learnings from student reflections. |
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How to run a “masterclass” |
How to effectively use “peer-to-peer” learning and constructive feedback and practice facilitating discussion. |
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Lunch |
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Best practices and teaching “hacks” |
Tools for ideation, team formation best practices, common pitfalls, and more. |
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Getting feedback and giving evaluations |
Creating feedback loops, understanding if/how students are learning and how to evaluate. |
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Open discussion & Questions & Sharing |
Sharing best practices as a group, taking questions and your feedback. |
Note: Inputs from participants during the course of certain topics and interests may lead to adjustments to the content and/or the sequence of topics.
Practical information
When & where: 9-10 August in Aarhus | Day 1. 09.00-16.00, Day 2. 09.00-15.00 | The Kitchen, Universitetsbyen 14, 8000 Aarhus C12-13 August in Copenhagen | Day 1. 09.00-16.00, Day 2. 09.00-15.00 | KU Søndre Campus, Karen Blixens Plads 8, bygning 13, 2300 København S
Who: The 2-day masterclass is aimed at lecturers and educators across the Danish higher education institutions (universities, PH, and EAs)
Practical: Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
The Masterclasses are sponsored by the Otto Mønsted Foundation in Denmark, the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship, and The Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
About the Instructors
The Masterclass will be taught by Ken Singer, Chief Learning Officer & Managing Director, and David Law, Director of Global Academic Programming & Startup Programs at UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship (SCET).
SCET is the primary hub for entrepreneurship education at UC Berkeley, the world’s best public university and a top-tier institution for generating entrepreneurs in the US
Background
The Masterclass was born out of the 2019 Entrepreneurship Academy, where Innovartion Centre Denmark in Boston and Silicon Valley brought six Danish universities, the Innovation Fund Denmark and the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship to visit entrepreneurial, forward-thinking institutions incl. MIT and UC Berkeley.
See testimonials from the week here: MIT & Babson College | UC Berkeley & Stanford University