New resource will help professors elevate their entrepreneurship courses.
Breakout Learning, the award-winning edtech company that uses the power of AI to monitor and evaluate small group discussions, is introducing comprehensive, discipline-specific teaching plans to help professors utilize the company’s growing catalog of interactive case studies and exercises.
Up first is the Teaching Plan on Entrepreneurship crafted by Olav Sorenson, the Joseph Jacobs Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA Anderson, who serves as the Entrepreneurship practice leader for the company and chairs the Academic Advisory Board overall.
Professor Sorenson’s comprehensive teaching plan is organized around topics typically covered in an introductory course on entrepreneurship, from building a team to exiting the business. For each one, the renowned professor has carefully selected from Breakout’s modern, interactive case studies and exercises that bring the academic concepts to life using the company’s award-winning format, where students engage in rich small group discussions evaluated by AI. These experiences have been shown to increase student engagement, while AI insights give professors an in-depth view of student discussions and understanding.
The plan also indicates where Breakout experiences can be substituted for course materials professors are likely to already have on their syllabi—for instance, swapping out static Harvard Business Publishing and Stanford cases about Lovepop and Airbnb with Breakout’s modernized experiences covering the same concepts.
In addition, Breakout’s format allows for the incorporation of more recent academic thinking not found in dated traditional cases. “For example, we're able to bring in even more explicitly some of these very new theoretical ideas about what kinds of personality types combine well and produce the most effective startups,” noted Sorenson.
More information about Breakout Learning’s teaching plans and experience library can be found here.