Academy4Business

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🎉 The two-year-long project is approaching its conclusion, and the final output of the course is already completed! 🎉
🚀 Ready to Dive into EdTech and Entrepreneurship? Read This First!
🎓 Welcome to A4B – an exciting example of courses that blend entrepreneurial mindset, EdTech innovation, and collaboration skills!
✨ What’s in it for you?
This 12-week, 6 ECTS course will help you:
✅ Understand the entrepreneurial mindset with a solid theoretical foundation.
✅ Analyze EdTech challenges using design thinking principles.
✅ Discover the potential of AI in education.
✅ Design impactful business models for EdTech solutions.
✅ Create, test, and improve prototypes tailored to your audience.
✅ Deliver an elevator pitch that makes your ideas shine.
💡 Themes Covered:
Entrepreneurial mindset
EdTech & Customer journey
Design thinking
AI in education
Idea validation & presentation
👥 Who’s it for?
If you're passionate about design thinking, EdTech, and entrepreneurship, this course is for YOU!
🔗 Explore this example of a groundbreaking course and get inspired 👉 A4B Course on Moodle https://moodle.edu.ee/login/index.php?lang=en
Let’s innovate, collaborate, and transform education together! 🌟

As our project comes to an end, our team of VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava would like to say thank you to all the partners and students participating in this 2-year long journey.

We learned a lot about EdTech, shared our expertise as well as enjoyed our main task: creating the on-line learing resources for new EdTech course. All the digital resources you can find on the Academy4Business YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/

Thank you all for the cooperation!
Kamila, Michal, Barbora and Hana

👏 It is always great to see the work and outcomes of our students. Students attending one of the Academy4Business workshops came up wih this storyboard for a new video-course of their choice.

📺 The task was to give us feedback for the videos we created in our A4B project. During the short workshop they used Design thinking method to come up with ideas and then used AI to generate a quick storyboard. Great work 👍

🌟 Introducing the Academy4Business guidelines for blended university courses! 🌟
Empower Your Classroom with the Academy4Business Blended Learning Approach 🚀

Are you an educator, trainer, or learning professional interested in fostering an entrepreneurial mindset and practical business skills among your students? The Academy4Business blended course guidelines might be exactly what you need.

📌 What’s Inside:
👉 Comprehensive Course Structure: Explore a well-defined roadmap of 6 sessions designed to develop entrepreneurial thinking, EdTech competence, and teamwork. 💡👩‍💻
👉 Practical Learning Activities: From analyzing real-world EdTech company challenges to applying design thinking and AI-driven solutions, this course equips learners with the tools they need for today’s fast-paced digital economy. 🤝🧭
👉 Evidence-Based Methods: Tap into research-backed resources, hands-on approaches, and feedback loops to help students validate their product or service ideas. 📚✅
👉 Flexible Implementation: Tailor the flipped-classroom model and expert-led sessions to align with your teaching style and learners’ needs. 🔄🎯

🌟 Why Read the Guidelines?
This comprehensive material offers a turnkey approach to delivering a modern, dynamic, and impactful entrepreneurial course. Whether you’re aiming to bridge academia and business or prepare students for the evolving EdTech landscape, the A4B guidelines provide the framework to get you started. 🌱

🌟 Ready to Dive In?
Check out the full guidelines and discover how you can bring an innovative, student-centered entrepreneurial experience into your classroom. 🌐✨

📥 Download the Guidelines and start creating impactful blended courses today. 👉 https://bit.ly/4fbb2w4

📢 On November 28, Tallinn University welcomed a Dutch delegation from Stichting de Verre Bergen, who visited to explore Estonia's advancements in digital education.

Discussions revolved around Estonia's use of digital tools in education, their advantages and limitations, and insights from the Academy4Business project, highlighting how hackathon methods are effectively applied in digital education innovation. 🌍✨
Together, we continue fostering knowledge exchange and impactful collaborations!

🌟 Innovative Ideas in Action! 🌟
As part of the Academy4Business, students from Tallinn University visited Speaktx on November 7, 2024, to test out a developed course and present their initial ideas for solving a real-world problem faced by the company. 💡

This collaboration between academia and industry showcases how innovative thinking can address real challenges while offering students invaluable hands-on experience. 👏

Reflections on Entrepreneurial Mindset! 💡

Throwback to September 26, 2024, when students from Tallinn University took part in the course piloting meeting for the Academy4Business project.
Together, they explored and shared their understanding of what it means to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset. 🚀

A great example of how academic initiatives inspire innovative thinking and practical skills. 🌟

Today, Kamila Smutná and Barbora Dvořáková from VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava led a workshop for students participating in BIP at Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski.
During the workshop, students:
✅ Reviewed videos from our A4B course.
✅ Used Design Thinking method to create quick prototypes for their own educational videos

🎤 Four teams presented their video ideas at the end of the workshop. It was great to hear their feedback and insights!

Thaks to Dział Współpracy Międzynarodowej UBB - International Relations Office for hosting this event 👍

📢 On November 6th, we held a Hybrid Multiplier Event at Tallinn University, where we presented an overview of the Academy4Business project! 🎓💼 We shared the project’s goals, challenges, and exciting outcomes, highlighting how Academy4Business is fostering an entrepreneurial mindset and bridging education with real-world industry needs. Thank you to everyone who joined us, both in person and online, to support and discuss this impactful initiative! 🌐✨