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2010-11 3E Learning Competition Award Winners!
presented at the USASBE 2011 Conference, January 15, 2011

Thanks to the sponsorship of the George Washington University’s Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CFEE), we had prizes this year of $500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place to be awarded at the USASBE 2011 conference, http://usasbe.org/conference/2011/.

After completing the first round of review, finalists were announced prior to the USASBE 2011 Conference. This years competition yielded over 30 new submissions. The 2010 finalists are listed here.

Final presentations were held on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 3:30pm - 4:45pm in Room I, Marriott Hilton Head. Click here to view the conference program. The final presentation is the final component of the scoring. Judges for the event were:

Dr. Erik Winslow, Co-Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CFEE), and Professor of Management at the George Washington University
Dr. George Solomon, Co-Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CFEE), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM), and Associate Professor of Management at the George Washington University
Dr. Ayman El Tarabishy, Research Professor of Management at the George Washington University, and Executive Director of ICSB
Professor Kevin Kimle (2009-10 3E runner-up), Iowa State University Department of Economics

A BIG thank you to all you participated in this year's competition. We look forward to receiving new submissions throughout the year in anticipation on the 2012 event. Remember what Albert Einstein said, “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Jonathon Mark Philips, The George Washington University
jmp_mark@gwu.edu
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Welcome to the 3E-Learning.org web site. The main mission of the site is to establish more and better use of entrepreneurial experiential learning exercises and games used as teaching tools to assist educators in teaching entrepreneurship, small business, and new venture in their classes.

The 3E-Learning site is designed to develop a national and international community of educators, practitioners and researchers that collaborate through submitting entrepreneurial experiential ideas, creating tools that support propagating of new knowledge, skills, and experience in the entrepreneurship education. The 3E-Learning site is also designed to allow the community to monitor and establish a quality stamp for entrepreneurial experiential exercises that can be used by educators in the US and abroad.

3E-Learning is run by the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CFEE) at The George Washington University.

The Experiential Classroom XII

We encourage you to apply or nominate others to apply. These could include faculty members who are re-tooling so that they can teach entrepreneurship, new faculty members, or entrepreneurs and adjuncts who want to come back to the classroom. Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis, and is limited to sixty delegates. While the tuition is $1700 per delegate, we have a limited number of partial scholarships funded by the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE) and the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship. These are awarded based on need and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The Clinic itself fills up quickly as we limit the size. Information and application forms can be found at http://entrepreneurship.okstate.edu/classroom. Please give me a call at (405) 744-5357 or Crystal at (405) 744-3325 if you have any questions.

Michael H. Morris, Ph.D.
Professor and N. Malone Mitchell Chair
Head, School of Entrepreneurship
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
ph: (405) 744-5357

A Clinical Tradition

See one. Do one. Teach one.” The great clinical tradition in medical education is an appropriate and valuable standard for entrepreneurship education. Our intention is to foster intellectual and practical collisions between the academic and the real world in everything we do, thereby enhancing entrepreneurship education and research throughout the world. Our foundation is rooted in the experiential----in imaginative approaches to understanding entrepreneurship theory, concepts, principles and frameworks that center on learning by doing. We believe that an entrepreneurial education must be linked to the real world; that research must be relevant and impactful; and that teaching must incorporate practice and hands-on learning.

Help those who are new to the teaching of entrepreneurship, including both faculty and practitioners, to learn best classroom practices
Capture the experiences of those who come to the teaching of entrepreneurship from diverse backgrounds, and • share lessons learned in making the transition
Introduce a number of highly creative and effective experiential approaches, ranging from cases, business plans, and the use of entrepreneurs in the classroom to having students conduct entrepreneurial audits, the concept of
marketing inventions and consulting engagements
Apply a simple but powerful framework for understanding the core content in entrepreneurship
Demonstrate effective teaching approaches by observing master teachers
Share ideas on specialty topics in entrepreneurship education, such as how to kick off a class, creative mentoring • programs, what’s new in entrepreneurship nternships and much more
Expose delegates to a rich resource base and help them join a network of faculty who share similar experiences
Share insights on how to build world class entrepreneurship programs
Give delegates an opportunity to actually teach live in front of students, with helpful critiques from entrepreneurship faculty

Who Should Attend?

Current faculty members from any discipline who are re-tooling to teach entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs planning to return to the classroom to teach entrepreneurship ourses
Adjunct faculty teaching entrepreneurship part-time
Faculty new to teaching entrepreneurship
Center directors coordinating entrepreneurship programs

History

The Experiential Classroom was launched in Fall 2000 as part of the Lifelong Learning for Entrepreneurship Education Professionals (LLEEP) partnership. The partnership was formed in 1998 when a group of leading academics met to explore the future of entrepreneurship education and address the growing need for high-quality teachers in thefield. LLEEP committed to a core set of clinics dedicated to sharing leading-edge teaching practices and enhancing teaching skills. The Experiential Classroom has emerged as one of the most popular of these clinics, and is now entering its 11th year. This success is tied to a commitment to an experiential approach both in its subject matter and innovative delivery methods. More than 700 faculty from around the world have attended the Experiential Classroom over the past 10 years.

The Experiential Classroom XII

A Clinical Tradition

Who Should Attend?

History

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