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Teaching entrepreneurship and business well is a complex challenge and different people hold different views about what really works. In addition, incisive learning theories are constantly being developed and scientists are continually discovering more and more about brain functionality. The SimVenture team is committed to offering teachers, trainers and students best practice resources and information about the subjects of Business and Entrepreneurship. Our development work is underpinned by sound theory and years of experience. As such, we always seek quality information, informed opinion, and versatile tools that ensure people learn efficiently and effectively. This page is dedicated to concepts and principles that drive leading edge work. Everything you read, see & hear also reflects our reasons for creating a high quality business simulation. This thinking & crucially the practice also informs the ongoing development of SimVenture. |
Dan Corlett is always looking for tools to improve the quality of entrepreneurship teaching at the University of Birmingham. In this short film, Dan explains how his team assesses student performance and progress using SimVenture and highlights how much students learn from using the non traditional resource.
Find out how Lesley Strachan, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Southampton Solent University, is filling the seminar rooms with students who want to learn. In this film, Lesley explains how she is prioritising student needs and changing the learning experience and culture within the Department where she works.
Head of Enterprise at the University of Huddersfield, Kelly Smith highlights why entrepreneurship education is so important and how it provides students with permission and the necessary spark to think differently. Using a recent large-scale SimVenture competition as an example, Kelly talks about how students learn through practice and failure and ultimately concludes why this powerful process is a whole journey of discovery.
Physicist by training, Simon Brown highlights why authenticity, experimentation and hands-on learning are such crucial ingredients in high quality teaching. Simon explains why teaching with SimVenture reflects his work as a scientist and how the software offers students a deep learning, interactive experience that reflects reality.
Globetrotting Tasmanian, Colin Jones, is a leading authority on entrepreneurship education and understands the fundamental principles that apply to best practice learning and teaching. In this short film, Colin emphasises why students must make decisions, deal with consequences and be aborbed in their own learning for it to be truly effective.
Connie Hancock (Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Univerity of Chester) reflects on the fact that introducing learning resources that are very different to traditional ones can be difficult. Connie talks about how she 'sold' the idea of using SimVenture to colleagues and how students are now reaping the benefits of deeper and more meaningful learning experiences.
Enterprise Champion at Swansea University, Corina Edwards, explains how SimVenture has been incorporated into teaching entrepreneurship on a large scale in different departments. Learn from Corina's first-hand experience to find out how she has influenced and worked with colleagues to ensure university-wide use of the resource.
