Innovation corps for learning: Evidence-based entrepreneurship™ to improve (STEM) education

Rocio C Chavela Guerra; Karl A. Smith; Ann McKenna; Chris Swan; Russel Korte; Shawn Jordan; Micah Lande; Robert Macneal

doi:10.1109/FIE.2014.7044484

Innovation corps for learning: Evidence-based entrepreneurship™ to improve (STEM) education

Rocio C Chavela Guerra, Karl A. Smith, Ann McKenna, Chris Swan, Russel Korte, Shawn Jordan, Micah Lande, Robert Macneal

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Abstract

The Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps-L) is a pilot initiative from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to study whether the NSF I-Corps model can help to propagate and scale educational innovations. The NSF I-Corps guides teams based on established strategies for business start-ups, using Blank's Lean LaunchPad and Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas and associated tools, to build entrepreneurial skills that will encourage mainstream application of their emerging technologies. The overriding goal is improving student learning and success rates in key STEM courses by helping to accelerate the process of bringing effective educational innovations to scale. The project goal of I-Corps-L is to investigate the potential of the I-Corps model for fostering an entrepreneurial mindset within the education community to impact the way innovations are designed and implemented. This Work in Progress describes the features of the I-Corps-L pilot and provides preliminary indications of its applicability for propagating, scaling and sustaining education innovations. Addressing the persistent challenge in STEM education to adopt evidence-based instructional practices is an urgent need as many approaches have been tried yet the rate and extent of adoption are very low.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Volume	2015-February
Edition	February
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044484
State	Published - Feb 17 2015
Event	44th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2014 - Madrid, Spain Duration: Oct 22 2014 → Oct 25 2014

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Other	44th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2014
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	10/22/14 → 10/25/14

Keywords

I-Corps
innovation
scalability
sustainability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Software
Education

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Guerra, R. C. C., Smith, K. A., McKenna, A., Swan, C., Korte, R., Jordan, S., Lande, M., & Macneal, R. (2015). Innovation corps for learning: Evidence-based entrepreneurship™ to improve (STEM) education. In Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE (February ed., Vol. 2015-February). Article 7044484 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044484

Innovation corps for learning: Evidence-based entrepreneurship™ to improve (STEM) education. / Guerra, Rocio C Chavela; Smith, Karl A.; McKenna, Ann et al.
Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE. Vol. 2015-February February. ed. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. 7044484.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Guerra, RCC, Smith, KA, McKenna, A, Swan, C, Korte, R, Jordan, S, Lande, M & Macneal, R 2015, Innovation corps for learning: Evidence-based entrepreneurship™ to improve (STEM) education. in Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE. February edn, vol. 2015-February, 7044484, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 44th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2014, Madrid, Spain, 10/22/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044484

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