Teaching entrepreneuship using serious games in a Web 2.0 environment

Aristidis Protopsaltis; Spiros Borotis; Thomas Connolly; Thomas Hainey

doi:10.1109/IMCTL.2014.7011140

Teaching entrepreneuship using serious games in a Web 2.0 environment

Aristidis Protopsaltis
, Spiros Borotis
, Thomas Connolly
, Thomas Hainey

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Abstract

This paper reports on the main piloting of the StartUp_EU (http://www.startup.odl.org/) Lifelong Learning European Project. StartUp_EU aimed at simulating the excitement and creative innovation of starting up new company. The project developed a series of serious mini-games, an encompassing Web2.0 platform based on ILIAS Learning Content Management System (LCMS) and a collaborative competition for secondary school students, between 14 and 18 years of age, to inspire high tech entrepreneurship. 243 students participated in a competition completing a series of 8 tasks simulating the process of arriving at an idea for a business to a real product and creating an elevator pitch. Pre-competition and post-competition questionnaires were collected. The remainder of the paper presents the results of the pre-and post- questionnaires regarding participants' perception of the learning experience regarding entrepreneurship using serious games and Web 2.0.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	242-246
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479947423
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2014.7011140
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning - Mediterranean Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece Duration: 13 Nov 2014 → 14 Nov 2014 http://www.imcl-conference.org/imcl2014/

Conference

Conference	2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning
Abbreviated title	IMCL2014
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Thessaloniki
Period	13/11/14 → 14/11/14
Internet address	http://www.imcl-conference.org/imcl2014/

Keywords

secondary education
serious games
Web2.0
game-based learning
entrepreneurship

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Protopsaltis, A, Borotis, S, Connolly, T & Hainey, T 2014, Teaching entrepreneuship using serious games in a Web 2.0 environment. in 2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning. IEEE, pp. 242-246, 2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece, 13/11/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCTL.2014.7011140

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