SEDA/SEDA301/StartHere

Social Entrepreneurship in the 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 breadth unit 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 syllabus,
 * 4) * Learning materials (see learning pathways in the menu above),
 * 5) Review the:
 * 6) * Course aims

Study Tips
There are a few things you should know about Creating social impact with social entrepreneurship and social enterprise (SEDA301) (SEDA301) course: The course is divided into learning pathways, which are part of your discovery of what you want to learn. You can use these as a means to navigate and they contain elearning activities to push your learning further. Please look in the course syllabus to see this structure. Learners participating in this course for formal academic credit will need to allocate an additional 20 hours required for completion of the final assignment.
 * 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 feed: The course hosts a live feed where you can monitor posts from WEnotes and participant blog posts using the SEDA301 tag or label.
 * 3) * WEnotes is the locally hosted microblog technology for posting comments to the course feed.
 * 4) Suggested study time: This is an asynchronous course which means you can participate at times which are convenient for your own schedule.