This session will describe a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching entrepreneurship to a diverse group of students, i. e. Engineering and Human and Organizational Development students. A course has been designed to provide them with an overall understanding of entrepreneurship and to prepare them for developing a mindset for thinking creatively. Traditional disciplinary boundaries are broken, as students are freed to innovate and to think creatively about future ventures. The course is targeted at students who would like to create their own business and they are given the opportunity to develop a business plan from one of their own ideas. Students from entirely different programs, like Human and Organizational Development and Engineering, are encouraged to work collaboratively on joint projects. Opportunities to share their ideas with other entrepreneurs are made possible. The course is meant to teach students how to dream about new ideas and how to take new business ventures to the marketplace. In part, entrepreneurship is defined as a "state of mind --artful, insightful and innovative mentality rather than a business management or administration concept." It is a way of perceiving and exploiting opportunity wherever it is found. Students are given the opportunity to explore markets for their own ideas and to conceptualize a business enterprise for such markets.A wide variety of teaching strategies will be discussed in this session, including lecturettes, video clips, guided discussions, peer group learning, telephone/video conferencing, outside entrepreneurial speakers, online searches and comprehensive webbased interactions. Online presentation of materials will be discussed, and heavy emphasis will be placed upon the use of technology in the learning environment. Learning concepts developed by Clouse and Goodin related to "just in time" teaching and "whole-part-whole" techniques will be presented.

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Much of traditional schooling in America is built around systems of compliance and control, characteristics which stifle the creative and entrepreneurial instincts of the children who are subjected to these tactics. This article explores a different approach to education, one that involves capturing the interest of the student through the use of problem and project-based instruction delivered via the Internet. Called Entrepreneurs in Action, this program seeks to involve students in a problem at the outset and to promote the learning of traditional subject areas as a process of the problem-solving activities that are undertaken. The program's details are explained, from elementary school through university level courses, and the authors outline their plans to test the efficacy of the program at each level.

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