Familiarise yourself with the course site, course guide and create the website accounts you will need.

• Dates: 10 Feb 2020 – 14 Feb 2020
• Learning materials:
  • About BMAN111
  1. Start here
  2. Course guide
  • Create website accounts for your personal learning environment (PLE)
  1. Orientation learning pathway.
  • Key activities:
  1. Sign-up to receive course instructions via email.
  2. Complete the OERu new participant survey (optional).
  3. Complete the 5 things you should do before starting the course
  4. Activities using your PLE website accounts
     • Create an account on this website by clicking on the “Log in/Register” link (or “head graphic on a mobile device) and post your first comment on the Course feed page.
     • Post a “Toot” using the course BMAN111 hashtag
     • Create your forums account for BMAN111 and complete your profile page
     • Practise annotating a web page with the BMAN111 course code
     • Create your bookmarks account and search for links using BMAN111

Create a learning journal blog and declare yourself.

• Dates: 17 Feb 2020 – 21 Feb 2020
• Learning materials:
  1. Learning journal blog.
• Key activities:
  1. Create and customise your course blog site
  2. Complete the Declare yourself challenge
  3. Make sure you have tagged or labeled your blog post using the course code: BMAN111.
  4. Don’t forget to assign your blog URL for the feed scanner (this is needed so that your posts tagged with the course code will be “”fetched” and linked from the course feed).
  5. Post one or two comments on the blog sites of fellow learners in your class (lLook for blog posts on the course feed page).

Publishing your own definition of entrepreneurship and reflecting on the context of a start-up business in your own country.

• Dates: 24 Feb 2020 – 28 Feb 2020
• Learning materials:
  1. Introducing entrepreneurship.
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the materials for this learning pathway.
  2. Contribute to the discussion: Does country context matter?
  3. Complete the defining entrepreneurship challenge.

Explore the characteristics that contribute to the success of entrepreneurs.

• Dates: 2 Mar 2020 – 6 Mar 2020
• Learning materials:
  1. What makes a successful entrepreneur?.
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the materials for this learning pathway.
  2. Post a contribution to the discussion forum on learning from other entrepreneurs.

Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of an entrepreneur.

• Dates: 9 Mar 2020 – 13 Mar 2020
• Learning materials:
  1. Entrepreneur learning challenge.
• Key activities:
  1. Publish a blog post analysing the strengths and weaknesses of yourself as an entrepreneur or a famous entrepreneur identified via a web search.

Think of a business idea for a start-up and reflect on questions you should consider.

• Dates: 16 Mar 2020 – 20 Mar 2020
• Learning materials:
  1. Before starting your own business.
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this pathway.
  2. Publish a blog post for a business idea and answer selected questions to consider before starting the business.

Explore the practice of business planning.

• Dates: 30 Mar 2020 – 3 Apr 2020
• Learning materials:
  1. Business planning.
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this pathway.
  2. Participate in the discussion forum on business planning.
  3. Share useful resources on business planning by completing the resource bank activity.

Publish an abridged business plan.

• Dates: 6 Apr 2020 – 10 Apr 2020
• Learning materials:
  1. Business planning learning challenge.
• Key activities:
  1. Publish a blog post for a business plan outline and executive summary.

Covering basic concepts of financial statements.

• Dates: 13 Apr 2020 – 17 Apr 2020
• Learning materials:
  1. Understanding financial statements.
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this pathway.
  2. Research and publish definitions of accounting concepts.
  3. Complete the mini quizzes on the:
     • Income statement
     • Balance sheet

Aligning types of finance with the business phase of a start-up

• Dates: 4 May 2020 – 8 May 2020
• Learning materials:
  1. Financing a new start-up.
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this pathway.
  2. Share links to websites providing advice on funding sources for financing a start-up business by completing the resource bank activity

Research potential funding sources for a start-up business in conjunction with phases of growth.

• Dates: 11 May 2020 – 15 May 2020
• Learning materials:
  1. Financing learning challenge.
• Key activities:
  1. Complete the tasks for the financing learning challenge.
  2. Publish a blog post identifying, purposes, type and timing for potential funding sources for your business idea.