Entrepreneurship Education: An Experimental Study with Information and Communication Technology

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has been regarded as a new science in the promotion of economic development, which has led to rapid development in entrepreneurship education. The growing number of students enrolled in entrepreneurship programs creates unprecedented challenges on educators. Although multiple teaching and learning activities are adopted in entrepreneurship education, these are mainly carried out using traditional classroom lectures, case studies and group discussions. Nowadays, information & communication technology (ICT) is used to enhance the effectiveness of traditional teaching methods and competency training. PowToon is a web-based ICT tool that hat allows teachers and students to quickly and easily create animated presentations. Using quasi-experimental design and qualitative method, this study is to examine whether PowToon is an effective tool for business plan presentation. The study find that the animated presentations attracted more investment than the groups that did not prepare animated videos. It reflects that developed videos which helps entrepreneurial team to better deliver their business ideas to investors in a well-thought out way. In addition, the results of the study show that individuals who generate a business idea did not necessarily significantly influence their investment decisions. Our findings challenge the concept on self-biases evaluations of the economic potential of their own business ideas. Finally, the students were very willing to adopt new ways of delivering their business ideas. create opportunities for governments to improve efficiency and strengthen their management and operations [18]. Many studies have confirmed that ICT increases procedural efficiency, customer service quality and reduces costs as well as positively influencing corporate performance, such as productivity, profit, market value and market share [12,19].ICT also could benefit teachers, promote learning and improve learning outcomes, particular at the elementary and high school levels [13]. Although higher education is where new knowledge is supposed to be created and acquired, it rarely is successfully applied to teaching activities [20]. Furthermore, higher education classes are more likely than elementary or high school classes to be large, which suggests relatively lower quality teacher-student interaction and relatively more common teacher-centered learning.The common course formats and key features of business courses include business plan (BP) development and pitch competitions [6]. BPs usually are employed to raise capital and plan for future developments. Recently, the idea of "crowdfunding" has rapidly spread around the world. The idea is to give individual investors opportunities to apply a relatively small amount of capital to fund new or expanding businesses [21]. If you were to ask investors whether the crowdfunding platform or the fundraising team was more important, many of them would tell you that the key is to display a video [22].PowToon is a cloud-based ICT tool that hat allows teachers and...

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