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Hi all,

 

 

I´m writing a study about (i) the use of online content and other internet features useful for Brazilian entrepreneurship educators and (ii) the will and the ways to participate of an private virtual community/ social network/ collaboration platform. My sample has 2 different kind of educators: 185 respondents from Sebrae (the Brazilian version of SBA) courses´ facilitators and 120 respondents from Brazilian Universities´ scholars who presented papers at national entrepreneurship conference. Preliminary results are very interesting: although most of them do not use online content, but a great part is willing to collaborate in a virtual community. It´s important to note that there isn´t a representative virtual forum in Portuguese. 

 

Ok, but I´m still not ready...

 

On (i) I would like to get more references on how educators use online resources to prepare classes. So I´m not much interested on distance learning and its platforms or dynamics, but more if educators use videos from Stanford Technology Ventures Program´s Educators Corner, Harvard cases´ teaching notes, book publishers´ PPTs, EBSCO, popular business magazines websites, and other content providers; as well as if they already participate on the creation and/or discussion of entrepreneurship content to enhance their classes. Are there any studies on that? I didn´t check all Education journals, but it has been a little hard to find this specific material...

 

On (ii), I need more references about academic virtual communities/ social networks/ collaboration platforms. Does anyone know any Nethnographic study about academic virtual communities, or traditional Ethnographic
studies about an academic community?

 

I would like also to know more about [ENTREP] and other virtual communities of Entrepreneurship Educators - I just know another mailing list, www.entrepreneurship-phd.org. When/how did [ENTREP] start? Archives are available since January 2006, but it´s older, isn´t it? John, are you the moderator since the beginning?

 

I would be glad to receive PVT comments about your experience at AOM mailing lists and/or other virtual communities/ social networks/ collaboration platforms used to academic or entrepreneurship purposes as well as the content websites cited above.  Based on the preliminary results that we have, we may try to design a "one-stop-shop" platform (a priori to Brazilian educators, but maybe the project could be global) and then try get funding to it. So it may become an entrepreneur initiative too... but that´s not for now, first I have to finish the article!  ;-) or articles, as I may split (i) and (ii).

 

Insights about other approaches to analyse it on future studies are also welcome: communities of practice? networks? virtual organizations? open innovation? knowledge management?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

LOS