Familiarise yourself with the course site and the course guide

• Dates: Independent study before starting the course.
• Consult these pages for the information you need.
  • About IENT101
    1. Start here
    2. Course guide
• Key activities:
  1. Complete the OERu new participant survey
  2. Complete the 5 things you should do before starting the course

Establish your personal learning environment (PLE) and declare yourself.

• Dates: Independent study (recommend 2 days)
• Learning materials:
  1. Establish a personal learning environment.
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Post a “Toot” using the course IENT103 hashtag
  3. Create your forums account for IENT103 and complete your profile page
  4. Practice annotating a wep page with the IENT103 course code
  5. Create your bookmarks account and search for links using IENT103
  6. Create a learning journal blog for IENT103
  7. Complete the “Declare yourself challenge for IENT103

In this learning pathway, we explore some introductory principles of economics and how they relate to small businesses. Which economic indicators are useful for entrepreneurs?

• Dates: Independent study (recommend 2 days)
• Key activities
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Introducing Economics: Basic Concepts (WEnote)
  3. What is an economic system? (Quiz)
  4. Supply and demand (Quiz)
  5. Economic growth (WEnote)
  6. Economic indicators (Reflection)
  7. Learning challenge
  8. Knowledge test (Quiz)

In this learning pathway, we explore common business financial statements.

• Dates: Independent study (recommend 2 days)
• Key activities:
  1. Work through the learning materials for this learning pathway
  2. Financial Statements Explained (WEnote)
  3. Income statement (WEnote, Quiz, mini-activity)
  4. Balance sheet (Quiz)
  5. Cash flow (WEnote)
  6. Learning challenge
  7. Knowledge test (Quiz)

In this learning pathway, we explore ways to finance a business start-up.

• Dates: Independent study (recommend 2 days)
• Key activities:
  1. Why do start-ups need finance? (WEnote)
  2. Types of finance (Resource Bank activity)
  3. Learning challenge
  4. Knowledge test (Quiz)

In this learning pathway, we explore ways to value a business start-up.

• Dates: Independent study (recommend 2 days)
• Key activities:
  1. Introducing the basics of valuing a business (WEnote)
  2. Financing stages (Annotation activity)
  3. Break-even (Reading and reflection)
  4. Basics of VC valuation (WEnote, reading, and annotation activity)
  5. Introducing methods for valuing a start-up (WEnote and reading)
  6. Learning challenge
  7. Knowledge test (Quiz)