SEDA/SEDA301/Overview

Welcome

Hi everyone and welcome to SEDA301 - Social Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age. We're thrilled to have you on-board and we hope that you enjoy the learning and insights the micro course will provide.

Welcome Video with Dr Sohpie Ross

Introduction to the Course 

The fast-paced development of new digital technologies provides powerful resources for addressing today’s social and environmental challenges. Combining the perspectives of business entrepreneurship, regional science and information systems, this Micro Course will uncover the potential of digitally connected social entrepreneurship as an agile and exciting vehicle for creating positive social and environmental change.

This course will provide students with a dynamic suite of online resources and activities to develop the knowledge and skills required to become agents for positive social change. By identifying an issue of significance within their local, national or global communities, students will develop and “pitch” their own socially entrepreneurial initiative. To achieve this, students will assess the strengths of a number of resources and tools that may be utilised by social entrepreneurs, including Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

Learning Outcomes

In this Micro Course, you will learn about social entrepreneurship and social enterprise, and the role that they play addressing the many social problems challenging individuals and communities across the globe. We will examine some of the environmental forces driving the rise in socially entrepreneurial initiatives, and explore the different motivations and activities of social enterprises at local, global and national levels.

Upon Completion of this Micro Course, you will be able to:

• Explain how social entrepreneurship, social enterprise and social innovation, as distinct theoretical concepts, are useful mechanisms for creating social impact within regional, national and global economies and communities.

• Evaluate the historical and contemporary socio-political, environmental and technological factors which have given rise to, and impact upon the activities of socially entrepreneurial projects and organisations.