Enhancing Flipped Classroom with BeeMSee Board Game

Abstract

Business Model Canvas (BMC) is an essential topic in Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship. Most students face difficulties in learning BMC because of their lack of conceptual understanding of nine boxes in BMC: customer segments, value propositions, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key resources, key activities, key partnerships, and cost structure. To minimise the difficulties, this innovation has introduced BeeMsee as an educational board game for teaching and learning BMC topics in flipped classroom approach. The main objective of this innovation is to provide students with learning materials that increase their understanding and motivation of BMC through a game-based learning approach. This BeeMSee board game is built based on activity theory to provide both fun and learning by facilitating the learning of BMC. It consists of a board, tokens, money, and two types of cards. This innovative BeeMSee board game enables effective collaboration among students, allowing them to contextualise learning within their learning experience and increase their enjoyment simultaneously. It also cultivates students' creativity, critical thinking, communication, and personal and social competencies. They can also prepare questions for the lecturers before coming to the class. Hence, students had more time for discussion during the synchronous learning with the lecturer. This product has the potential to be patented and commercialised. It is aimed at university students and improving the general public's understanding of business decision-making.