Title
Innovation corps for learning: Evidence-based entrepreneurship™ to improve (STEM) education
Abstract
The Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps-L) is a pilot initiative from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to study whether the NSF I-Corps model can help to propagate and scale educational innovations. The NSF I-Corps guides teams based on established strategies for business start-ups, using Blank's Lean LaunchPad and Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas and associated tools, to build entrepreneurial skills that will encourage mainstream application of their emerging technologies. The overriding goal is improving student learning and success rates in key STEM courses by helping to accelerate the process of bringing effective educational innovations to scale. The project goal of I-Corps-L is to investigate the potential of the I-Corps model for fostering an entrepreneurial mindset within the education community to impact the way innovations are designed and implemented. This Work in Progress describes the features of the I-Corps-L pilot and provides preliminary indications of its applicability for propagating, scaling and sustaining education innovations. Addressing the persistent challenge in STEM education to adopt evidence-based instructional practices is an urgent need as many approaches have been tried yet the rate and extent of adoption are very low.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/FIE.2014.7044484
FIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
commerce,engineering education,innovation management,asee,american society for engineering education,blank lean launchpad,i-corps-l initiative,innovation corps for learning,nsf,nsf i-corps model,national science foundation,osterwalder business model canvas,stem education,educational innovation,entrepreneurial skills,evidence-based entrepreneurship,science-technology-engineering-mathematics education,i-corps,innovation,scalability,sustainability
Mindset,Entrepreneurship,Engineering management,Engineering education,Knowledge management,Emerging technologies,Business Model Canvas,Engineering,Mainstream,Sustainability,Evidence-based practice
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.63
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
rocio c chavela guerra111.98
Karl A. Smith24410.73
Ann McKenna393.26
chris swan410.63
russel f korte511.30
Jordan, S.694.16
Micah Lande764.21
robert macneal810.63