Overview 
This course handbook is the ‘blueprint’ detailing many elements of the Unitec course BSNS 5391 Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The handbook introduces the course descriptor, assignments, and learning resources for the course. You are provided with specific guidance for preparing for the first in-class meeting and first assignment. 

Purpose
The purpose of the handbook is to ensure that a student enrolling in the course is informed comprehensively about:
- The aims and learning outcomes of the course
- Schedules for reading, personal study, workload, and assignments
- The learning resources required for perusal by student, including texts, lecture notes, on-line resources, and web-based learning support systems
- The assignments that help students focus and demonstrate their learning
- Agendas for the first few weeks of class, including materials relevant for preparing for those classes
- Specific activities that should be scheduled immediately for starting course assignments and the course ‘learning adventure’.

Unique features
The course seeks to demonstrate what it preaches: innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, continuous improvement, and shared learning informed by the principles of Unitec’s ‘Living Curricula’ policy. Consequently, you will find these features of the course less common elsewhere:
- Compulsory requirement to undertake an on-line assessment of your natural talents and strengths using the Gallup StrengthsQuest instrument.
- Requirement to progress work on three assignments concurrently
- Requirement to write a regular personal journal (blog) culminating in a reflective essay and a strengths-based Professional Learning Agenda
- An engaging new venture team-based assignment in which you create, demonstrate, and lead a teaching and learning workshop for other class participants.
- A weekly opportunity at the start and end of each class to raise concerns and refine the tutor’s approach to leading your learning journey... Kai-zen.

Recommendations for immediate action
- Read the Course Handbook Introduction, Section 2
- Skim read the Table of Contents and Course Descriptor, Section 4.
- Complete the preparation for the first meeting as specified in: Agenda and Course Material for Studio 1, Section 12
- Skim read the requirements for the course assignments, especially those that you should commence immediately: Assignment ONE and Assignment THREE.
- Acquire the course textbooks and Selected Readings … and skim read.

New Edition: February 2011, Version 3.1

Course Handbook and Syllabus Unitec BSNS 5391 Innovation and Entrepreneurship PDF

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