18190: Teaching Social Entrepreneurship with the Seizmic Social Business Modeling APP

Experiential learning is crucial for social entrepreneurship education. In this PDW educators share experiences of teaching social business modeling with the seizmic APP, a free education tool funded by the Erasmus+ programme (https://app.seizmic.eu/) designed for collaborative social business model development. The seizmic APP is an online pedagogical tool supporting collaborative learning which every year is used by about 400 students from ten European universities encouraging peer learning across teams. With the seizmic APP students research social or environmental problems, identify solutions for these, and then design their own business model, business plan, or start-up idea. Using the APP allows educators to align student group work with their syllabus, while also keeping a close eye on student progress, allowing faculty to give feedback when it is most useful, and finally encouraging peer learning between student teams. This PDW will share best practice examples of how to use the seizmic APP and will allow participants to explore how they can implement this tool in their own course work. The PDW will first feature a panel of social entrepreneurship educators who have piloted the tool sharing how they have integrated the seizmic APP in their own pedagogical approaches. Next, the workshop will arrange interactive roundtable discussions, where participants can receive personalized guidance on integrating these methodologies and tools into their own curriculum. This PDW not only aims to enhance teaching strategies in social entrepreneurship but also strives to foster a community of practice among educators in this evolving field.

Pre-registration and submission of exemplary curricular for the roundtable
Interested participants are invited to pre-register with the following survey:
https://copenhagenbusiness.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_37Pn2TI94osxqjY
Pre-registration is not required and walk-ins are explicitly encouraged. However, should space in the room be limited, preference will be given to participants who have pre-registered. As part of the pre-registration, participants can submit questions to the panel. They can also suggest a course of their own as an exemplar to be discussed with one of the panelists during the roundtable phase. The panelists will select topics that they feel are good case examples of illustrating the topics discussed in the PDW.