INN340 Entrepreneurship in Practice and Theory
Credits (ECTS):15
Course responsible:Nils Sanne
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Norsk
Course frequency:Annually
Nominal workload:375 hours
Teaching and exam period:This course starts in Autumn parallel. This course has teaching/evaluation in Autumn parallel and January block.
About this course
Learning outcome
The class uses a dozen teaching methods, some of which may be new to you. These include:
- Experiential learning
- Team-based learning
- The "Flipped" classroom
- Weekly team presentations
- An "Inverted lecture hall"
- Team teaching
- Active and frequent mentor engagement
- Mandatory weekly office hours
- Peer comments and support
- LaunchPad Central - our "operating system" for innovation
- The experiment database
- Relentlessly direct feedback
The student team will be assigned a mentor from the second year entrepreneurial class, which will support the teams in the entreprenrial learning process.
The students will work out and sign a team contract which regulate the team assigment project. This contract has to be approved by the course teachers. If the contract is violated, the team has to arrange a meeting with their mentor and teacher. The teachers will decide further action with respect to further process and work.
Canvas
- INN301 Innovation.
Portfolio assessment. 2/3 of the grading is team-based (autumn) and 1/3 of the grading is individual (spring).
Grading Criteria: this course (autumn) is team-based and 85% of your grade will come from your team progress and final project. Your peers will also grade your contribution to your team. The grading criteria are broken down as follows:
15% Individual participation in class. You will be giving feedback to your peers. You will also be rating the quality of the feedback you get from your peers.
30% Out-of-the-building progress as measured by online write-ups and presentations each week. Team members must: 1) update their business model canvas weekly 2) identify which team member did which portion of the work. 3) report on what the team did each week
25% The team weekly "lesson learned" presentation
30% The team final presentation
The January semester counts 1/3 of the average grade and the grade is set on an individually written reflection report and subject text.
No re-sit examinations in this course.
- External examiner will control the quality of syllabus, questions for the final examination, and principles for the assessment of the examination answers.
- Participation in teamwork and presentations.
- Lecturing/problem solving two days per week. The number of lecturing hours per day will vary from week to week. Excursions and workshops. Group work at regular basis throughout the semester.
- The course overlaps 10 ECTS with INN341.
- Letter grades
- The course is only for master students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.