Student Entrepreneurs: A Reality-Based Video Series following the STEM Virtual Enterprise

在将软技能和创业精神融入STEM课程的成功记录的基础上，高级技术教育电视台（ATETV）、巴鲁克学院、纽约（CUNY）虚拟企业研究所（IVE）和Pellet Productions，Inc.正在开发一系列网络视频，描述来自四所社区学院的学生使用NSF/ATE资助的STEM虚拟企业（STEM-VE）教学法创建科技企业。在这种模式中，学生承担企业成员的角色，并在团队中面对面地经营自己的业务。STEM-VE是一个模块化的主动学习教学框架，用于提供现有IT，生物技术和电子课程的内容，并在创业经验的背景下教授技术，商业和人际交往技能。正在开发的视频有三个主要受众，并服务于不同的目的：1）作为STEM和商科学生对STEM创业兴趣的催化剂，2）作为STEM课堂内创业教育的教学工具，以及3）作为寻求将创业成分纳入STEM课程的教师的专业发展系列。第一组视频由戏剧性和引人入胜的真人秀风格的视频组成，展示了STEM-VE课程的学生在虚拟公司内从事各种动手，真实世界的STEM企业活动。这些视频旨在激发其他学生对与STEM企业合作的兴趣和兴奋。该项目还制作了专业发展视频，向教师展示如何将类似的VE内容和活动纳入他们的课程，学生也可以在这些教室中观看。形成性评估使用学生和教师的输入指导项目中的视频开发。该项目通过跟踪学生学习成果，增加了对STEM-VE创业教育有效做法的评价结果。通过与其他ATE中心（其中许多董事在咨询委员会任职）的高知名度和ATE电视台的网站，实现了广泛传播。

Building on a successful track record to infuse soft-skills and entrepreneurship into STEM courses, Advanced Technological Education Television (ATETV), Baruch College, the Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE) at the City University of New York (CUNY), and Pellet Productions, Inc. are developing a series of web videos that depict students from four community colleges creating science and technology businesses, using the NSF/ATE-funded STEM Virtual Enterprise (STEM-VE) pedagogy. In this model, students assume the roles of members of business enterprises and operate their businesses face-to-face in teams. STEM-VE is a modular, active-learning pedagogical framework for delivering the content of existing IT, biotechnology and electronics courses and teaching technical, business and interpersonal skills within the context of an entrepreneurial experience. The videos being developed have three primary audiences and serve different purposes: 1) as a catalyst for interest in STEM entrepreneurship among STEM and business students, 2) as an instructional tool for entrepreneurial education within the STEM classroom, and 3) as a professional development series for faculty seeking to incorporate entrepreneurial components into their STEM classes. The first set of videos consist of dramatic and engaging reality-TV style videos showcasing students in STEM-VE classes engaged in various hands-on, real-world STEM business enterprise activities within their virtual firms. These videos are designed to stimulate other students' interest in and excitement about working with STEM enterprises. The project is also producing professional development videos showing faculty how to incorporate similar VE content and activities into their curricula, that students can also view in those classrooms.Formative assessment guides video development in the project using input from both students and faculty. The project adds to the body of evaluation results on effective practices in STEM-VE entrepreneurship education by tracking the gains in students' learning. Wide dissemination is accomplished through high visibility with other ATE Centers (many of whose directors serve on the advisory board) and through the websites of ATE TV.