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Dear Entrepreneurship Colleagues:

What a marvelous time to be an entrepreneurship educator!

Two things. First, I recently "flipped" my introductory financial accounting class. Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, calls this a "sustaining innovation" in his book, "Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools." To see how I've flipped the course, please visit http://contentbuilder.merlot.org/toolkit/html/snapshot.php?id=29541695704257. The new approach gives me more time to go deeper with my students, conceptually, and it also frees up more time for me to supervise project-based learning activities through a nonprofit entrepreneurship organization I started, called SAGE.

Others are also flipping their classrooms. Recently, I ran across a couple links today that I think will be of great interest to our faculty (especially business).

http://www.learnaccountingforfree.com/ and http://chronicle.com/article/When-a-Flipped-Classroom/151031/

Note that Dr. Christenson said, "The Harvard Business School doesn't teach entry-level accounting anymore...This online accounting course is just so good that Harvard students use it instead. When outstanding becomes so easily available, average is over."

Second, starting this fall, I will team-teach a six unit course (3 units math; 3 units business) to over 100 freshmen in a completely reconfigured classroom which allows for 1/3 lecture, 1/3 "work stations" where students complete real, hand-on activities that address REAL problems (e.g., makerspaces), and 1/3 self-paced, online learning. Dr. Christensen calls this a "disruptive innovation."

Want more information? Let me know! J

It's an exciting time to be in higher education. Onward.