The Academy4Business project has produced these guidelines for blended university courses. The aim of this project was to bridge the gap between the academic and business worlds through a two-way transfer of knowledge between the academic and business sectors. In this way, students are supported to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, while business actors are introduced to the use of evidence and science-based approaches in their business. The process involves high quality innovative outputs - digital, online and hands-on learning opportunities that are co-designed using the design thinking approach, then piloted and, based on feedback, improved and transferred to the digital output form.

In order to achieve the project's goal, one of the project's tasks was to create blended university courses that would support the development of students' EdTech entrepreneurial mindset.

The aim of the course is to support students' understanding of the nature of the entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurship in the field of EdTech and collaboration skills.

Learning outcomes

The student will be able to:

• understand the entrepreneurial mindset based on theoretical approaches;
  
• analyse a problem in the field of EdTech based on the principles of design thinking;
• analyse the possibilities of using artificial intelligence (AI) in EdTech;
• design a business model for an EdTech product or service based on value proposition principles;
• create, validate and improve a prototype of an EdTech product or service based on the target audience;
• present an idea for a product or service to solve a problem in the EdTech field (a business model) using the principles of an elevator pitch.