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This area is for the WikiEducator community to engage in curriculum development activities around Social Entrepreneurship.

A parallel site is under development on Wikiversity: Curriculum area on the Social Entrepreneurship Wikiversity portal and discussion on the general section of the curriculum.

General

In this area we will be sharing ideas around the themes and specific content for a social entrepreneurship curriculum. Below are some possible areas which suggest a course outline:

• Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship
• Understanding Developing Communities
• Social Innovation
• Collaboration and Partnerships
• Developing an Idea
• Sharing the Idea and Raising Awareness
• Resources and Processes
• Fundraising
• Valuation -- How to assess ideas, projects, initiatives and students
  • Measuring Social Impact
  • Sustainability
• Putting it all Together.

The above are being developed further on the Social Entrepreneurship portal on Wikiversity under "General".

Also

• Research
• Readings
• Case Studies
• etc. - see Content

Professional development

• Business Management
  • Financial Management
  • Human Resources Management
  • Project Management
• Principles of Entrepreneurship
• Certification e.g. Open ICDL.
• etc.

Tools

• Open Educational Content
• Wikieducator Tutorials
• Help Tutorials for creating OERs on WikiEducator

Community Perspectives

• Engaging with Communities
  • Cultural Studies
  • Community Structures and Processes
  • Facilitation and Dialogue
  • Soft Systems Methodologies

• Community Capacity building
  • Relevant life Skills
  • Lateral Thinking
  • Appropriate technology and knowledge transfer
  • Literacy
  • ICT Literacy
• etc.

Related

• Peace Education
• Child health
• Community Health Nursing

• Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC)
  • Tourism
  • Entrepeneurship
  • Life Skills Development

See Also

• Social Entrepreneurship Curriculum on WikiVersity
• Community Service Learning - DeAnza College
• Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.