1. EntrepreneurshipWhy Entrepreneurship?Mushtak Al-Atabi

2. Outline Course structure and assessment MOOCs and education in 21st Century The course philosophy Personal note from the lecturer Entrepreneurship and CDIO Brain Rewiring Teams and Projects 3. Course Structure & Assessment The course runs for 14 weeks Total expected learning hours is 120 hours Lectures will be every Wednesday 8-10 am (Malaysiatime) and will be recorded and uploaded online. Assessment will be 50% for the coursework and 50%for the final exam Students will need to maintain a portfolio of learning A Project represents a central piece of the coursework 4. MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses Promise to transform the world educationallandscape Currently we have 900 online students frommore than 100 countries and 100 students oncampus We would like to create as much interactionbetween students for maximum learning 5. Philosophy Why entrepreneurship? Making money or making a difference? Making the world a better place throughentrepreneurship Transforming our mindset to awaken theentrepreneur within Converting challenges into opportunities Optimistic and romantic Practical and hands on Dream big, be different and have fun. 6. Entrepreneurs Storyhttp://brightspotsculture.wordpress.com/the-original-story/ In 1990, Jerry Sternin was sent by Save theChildren to fight severe malnutrition in ruralcommunities of Vietnam. The Vietnamese foreign minister gave him just sixmonths to make a difference. Malnutrition in Vietnam is caused by poor sanitation Poverty lack of education What would you do in such situation? 7. Search for the Entrepreneur Are there any very poor families whose children werebigger and healthier than the typical child? Mothers of the healthiest children were doing thingsdifferently. Feeding their children smaller portions of food, more often during the day. Taking brine shrimp from the rice paddies and greens from sweet potatoes grown in their gardens and adding these to their daily soups or rice dishes (even though most people avoided these low class foods) When serving their children, they were ladling from the bottom of the pot, making sure the kids got the shrimp and greens that had settled during cooking 8. Bright Spots http://www.positivedeviance.org/about_pd/case_studies.html65% Reduction in Malnutrition 9. Personal Note Why am I doing this module? A journey to zero Education is done for free- Zero tuition fees Have Zero impact on Job Market Sustainable value 10. Entrepreneurship and CDIO A System Approach to Entrepreneurship Conceive Design Implement Operate 11. Exercise On a piece of paper Draw a car Draw a trivoslone You saw cars (image) and learnt what are theycalled (name) You have not seen a trivoslone (no image in yourbrain), so you cannot name it. It does not exist! I just made it up! 12. Thinking Mental Model When observing something, a baby will start byNaminggiving it a name or finding about its nameClassifying A baby will then classify it (good, bad, hot, cold) Then, the baby will make a decision (cry, play,Processingetc..) 13. Thinking Exercise What is this? What do you think of it? What should we do with it? 14. Problems vs Opportunities and Challenges The story of the Opportunity Fund Solving Ps is a destination, realisingopportunities is a journey Mission milestones Making Detroit Fit! 15. Problems vs Opportunities and Challenges The Opportunity Banknote Course pledge Restart 16. Thinking Exercise AgainLet us repeat the same exercisewithout using any negative terms What is this? Blattella Asahinai What do you think of it? Flyer, resilient, brown, antenna, six legged,winged, protein What can we do with it? 17. Thinking- Mental Model Naming Classifying Processing 18. Brain Rewiring So now we know the brain thinks, let us see how canwe rewire it Rewiring your brain will enable you to create a state ofmind that will enable the change in the world Our brains are built to respond to negative stimulus(danger, threats) and we need to train them to behaveotherwise to identify opportunities From now until the end of the module, you will need toreport and share three things that you are grateful for This will build synapses in the brain 19. What are You Supposed to Do? Think of a project Complete the activity Form a team Interact with other participants Submit homework on time 20. Teams and Projects 21. Teams and Projects 22. Recap You will report three (new) things that you aregrateful for daily. This will be done on theBrain Rewiring page You will actively replace the word problem; p-word with opportunity or challenge in bothyour spoken and written communications You will actively get yourself into a team andchoose a project 23. Reflection Questions What did you learn today? What will you do differently from now on? Will it help you if we stream the lecture live?