Wharton Social Entrepreneurship MOOC
There’s another Social Entrepreneurship MOOC coming up later this year, this one hosted at Coursera. This course is hosted by Ian McMillan, James Thompson, and Peter Frumpkin from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. James and Ian are also the authors of The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook.
Starting in September, it’s focus is to teach you how to:
- Launch social entrepreneurship projects which have high-potential of significant positive social impact,
- Direct energy and limited resources to efficiently launching those projects with the most promise,
- Apply tools and frameworks to testing and scaling your own social enterprise.
It runs for six weeks and covers:
- Week One: What is Social Entrepreneurship? What is Social Innovation?
- Week Two: Solution Design
- Week Three: Competitive Analysis and Concept Testing
- Week Four: Performance Measurement
- Week Five: Organization Form and Pilot
- Week Six: Establishing Checkpoints, Building for Scale, and Pitching
For more information, check out the Coursera page here – https://www.coursera.org/course/socialimpact
The DO School SocEnt MOOC
This is online course is ideal for an aspiring Social Entrepreneur that’s not sure how to go about it. If you’ve got an idea and need some guidance in implementing it, give The DO School’s Social Entrepreneurship Course a go. It’s free, and you get to learn from other emerging entrepreneurs on the path to success.
Start 28 June 2014. Enroll here.
Jaco Slabbert 