{"id":5431,"date":"2018-03-16T01:29:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T01:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/seda301\/?page_id=5431"},"modified":"2018-03-16T01:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T01:29:22","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/seda301\/course-guide\/overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Welcome\">Welcome<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Hi everyone and welcome to SEDA301 &#8211; Social Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age. We&#8217;re thrilled to have you on-board and we hope that you enjoy the learning and insights the micro course will provide.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"plainlinks\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600px\" height=\"400px\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OOVjMBQYPDg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Introduction_to_the_Course.C2.A0\">Introduction to the Course&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The fast-paced development of new digital technologies provides powerful resources for addressing today\u2019s social and environmental challenges. Combining the perspectives of business entrepreneurship, regional science and information systems, this Micro Course will uncover the potential of digitally connected social entrepreneurship as an agile and exciting vehicle for creating positive social and environmental change.\n<\/p>\n<p>This course will provide students with a dynamic suite of online resources and activities to develop the knowledge and skills required to become agents for positive social change.&nbsp;By identifying an issue of significance within their local, national or global communities, students will develop and \u201cpitch\u201d their own socially entrepreneurial initiative. To achieve this, students will assess the strengths of a number of resources and tools that may be utilised by social entrepreneurs, including Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"outcomes\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/seda301\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_objectives.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Learning Outcomes<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In this Micro Course, you will learn about social entrepreneurship and social enterprise, and the role that they play addressing the many social problems challenging individuals and communities across the globe. We will examine some of the environmental forces driving the rise in socially entrepreneurial initiatives, and explore the different motivations and activities of social enterprises at local, global and national levels.\n<\/p>\n<p>Upon Completion of this Micro Course, you will be able to:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explain how social entrepreneurship, social enterprise and social innovation, as distinct theoretical concepts, are useful mechanisms for creating social impact within regional, national and global economies and communities.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluate the historical and contemporary socio-political, environmental and technological factors which have given rise to, and impact upon the activities of socially entrepreneurial projects and organisations.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.041 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.102 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 156\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 1068\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 3518\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2025\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:183246-0!*!*!!*!2!* and timestamp 20180315075848 and revision id 1046130\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/seda301\/startup\/development-team\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/seda301\/course-guide\/recommended-technology\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Hi everyone and welcome to SEDA301 &#8211; Social Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age. 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