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Social Entrepreneurship in the a Digital Age
Welcome to the first open online micro-course for Social Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age. This module is called creating social impact with social entrepreneurship and social enterprise (SEDA301). In this micro-course you will go on your own introductory journey to understanding how 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.

3 things you should do before starting the course

 * 1) Register on this course site by clicking on the user icon ( ) in the site menu.  This will enable you to submit microblog posts using WEnotes and manage your registered learning journal blog url if you use one. (Note: As an open course, registration is not mandatory and we will post copies of the course announcements on the course site.)
 * 2) Familiarise yourself with the web site navigation to find out where the:
 * 3) * Course resources,
 * 4) * Learning materials (see learning pathways in the menu above),
 * 5) Review the:
 * 6) * Course overview

Study Tips
There are a few things you should know about creating social impact with social entrepreneurship and social enterprise (SEDA301) (SEDA301) course:
 * 1) Course tag: The course code for Creating social impact with social entrepreneurship and social enterprise : (SEDA301). Write this down because you can use this tag for your blog posts.
 * 2) Course discussion boards: This Course also uses free and open discussion boards to help reduce obstacles to learning and help students join a community. You can find SEDA301  General Discussion Board here. Links to specific Discussion boards will be provided throughout the course.
 * 3) Course feed: The course hosts a live feed where you can monitor posts from WEnotes and participant blog posts using the SEDA301 tag or label.
 * 4) * WEnotes is the locally hosted microblog technology for posting comments to the course feed.
 * 5) Suggested study time: This is a synchronous course which means you can participate at times which are convenient for your own schedule.
 * 6) Navigating this unit: The course is divided into learning pathways, which form sections of the micro-course. Each of these learning pathways builds on the last. It is recommended these learning paths are completed in sequencial order.