Hello:
This note is especially addressed to entrepreneurship faculty in
universities outside the US:
During the spring semester of 1999, an international business colleague and
I (my own field is entrepreneurship) will offer an Introduction to
International Entrepreneurship course to upper division undergraduate
international business majors here at California State University, Long
Beach, in Long Beach, California. This course will run from late January to
mid-May. One feature of the course will be its state-of-the-art
distance-learning website.
We are seeking one or possibly two international instructor/partners who
will be teaching an entrepreneurship course at a university outside the US
during the spring semester of 1999. We would propose making our teaching
materials available to you and your students via the website; and we would
like the same from you. During the semester, we would like to see
international teams of students formed from your class and ours that would
work together, via the website, on team projects for course credit at our
respective universities. These projects could range from position papers on
some international entrepreneurship topic to business plans prepared for
some international new venture. Your students would receive course through
your university and the course that you are teaching locally; our students
would receive course credit here.
We would anticipate having guest 'speakers' via the website. These could
include experienced entrepreneurs, people with various kinds of
international expertise, or others with world-class experience in
international entrepreneurship. At the end of the semester, a panel of
experts would evaluate the various teams' business plans or other work.
The language of instruction will be English. There will be no charge to you
or your students for the use of the website, but you and they would need to
use current web browsers: Preferably Netscape Navigator 4.0, or Internet
Explorer 4.0.
This website itself is a full-function distance-learning vehicle. It is
extremely user-friendly. Course materials are uploaded to the website. There
is a listserv for discussions. Each student team has it's own homepage.
Teams can engage in virtual discussions via real-time team 'chatrooms'.
Teams and students submit papers by uploading them. Instructors have the
ability to send email to individuals, specific teams, or the entire class
directly from the website rosters. The opening page of the website carries
announcements posted by the instructors.
If you would be interested in exploring this unique opportunity for the
spring semester of 1999, please contact me directly:
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Eric L. Hansen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Management/HRM
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
elhansen@csulb.edu
562-985-4358
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Collegial regards,
Rick Hansen