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It is delivered as an executive style program, using nontraditional scheduling and some blended distance education to accommodate working adults. Students attend multiple on-site intensive sessions at the University of Pennsylvania over the course of the program and complete synchronous and asynchronous online work between these sessions. All students complete core courses within each of the three domains as well as a capstone project. Graduates of the program leave not only with a more robust entrepreneurial mindset, but also with concrete skills that will prepare you to undertake new ventures in your chosen area of interest.
Students in the M.S.Ed. in Education Entrepreneurship program will acquire a strong grounding in three domains: Foundations of Education, Business Essentials, and Entrepreneurial Management of Knowledge. Within the education domain, students will learn about the connections between policy and pedagogy, as well as the history, structure and goals of schooling. The business domain will focus on marketing, finance, and operations as they pertain to venture creation – in general and to schools in particular. The entrepreneurial management of knowledge domain will provide students with an understanding of how to move research into practice, technology management, intellectual property management, and communications. The combination and integration of all three domains will offer students a comprehensive perspective on innovative ventures in education and position them to create or join such ventures.
In this domain, students study current education systems and policies, as well as the history of how these systems and policies evolved. Students also learn about the history, theory and application of various pedagogies and modes of school organization, as well as how they affect and are affected by government policy and public pressures. Students also study the changing landscape of delivery systems in urban public education.
In this domain, students learn about the financial, operational, legal, and marketing aspects of starting and running a business. This domain provides students with core business skills and experiences that they can use to become entrepreneurs in education and to navigate the business aspects of school creation and administration. The program includes three core business courses.
In this domain, students learn about how entrepreneurs can influence the creation, advancement and successful exploitation of knowledge. How are entrepreneurial insights achieved and developed? How is technology profitably managed and intellectual property rights protected? How do entrepreneurs learn about potential customer segments and meet potential customer needs? How can academic research be effectively connected to practice to improve the viability and impact of products and services?
Business-oriented skills include expertise in business model design, product and service design methodology, marketing strategy, fundraising, best practices in private and public financing, and hiring and talent development. Education-related skills include the ability to navigate the P-20 education policy context, including the ability to identify and gain access to key decision-makers as well as to beta sites and potential consumers, and knowledge of the history and goals of educational institutions. Students also gain expertise in curriculum design and assessment, budget development, and organizational change management. Entrepreneurial skills include expertise in design-thinking, rapid validation methodology, and the application of academic research to enhance product development.
By teaching the key elements of education, business, and entrepreneurship, the program gives entrepreneurs the capacity to successfully create new social impact ventures, including the creation and building of new schools and the development of effective products, services and practices in education.
|Summer Intensives||June 24-28, 2016|
|July 20-24, 2016|
|Fall 2016||September 23-25, 2016|
|October 28–30, 2016|
|December 2–4, 2016|
|Spring 2017||January 27–29, 2017|
|March 10–12, 2017|
|April 28–30, 2017|
| Summer Intensive ||June 23–26, 2017|
|July 28-31, 2017|
|*Dates subject to change|
|Summer Intensive||July 16–26, 2015|
|Fall 2015||September 11–13, 2015|
|October 23–25, 2015|
|December 4–6, 2015|
|Spring 2016*||January 29–31, 2016|
|February 26–28, 2016|
|April 29–May 1, 2016|
| Summer Intensive* ||July 14–24, 2016|
|*Dates subject to change|