The biggest challenge this year has been student engagement. How do we flip the script and . . .

How do we engage students in the Fall?

Option 1: Update Your Textbook

The most obvious way to increase the energy of a class is to switch up the textbook. Unfortunately, due to their inherent structure, textbooks don’t often:

• engage students
• or teach skills.

Not to mention textbooks are expensive, and for the most part, students don’t even read them.

If your goal is engagement, a new textbook may be an incremental improvement but from our experience, it won’t make a dramatic difference.

Option 2: DIY Experiences

Experiential courses engage students far more than any textbook. If you’ve got the time to build a curriculum with your favorite experiences from around the web, you can create have an interactive class.

That said, classes comprised of ad hoc exercises have downsides especially in terms of:

• Lack of cohesion / structure
• Time spent re-inventing the wheel

Fortunately, there’s a way to get the best of both worlds…

Option 3: An Experiential Curriculum

Instead of building your own curriculum, tools like the Experiential Entrepreneurship Curriculum can offer…

• Engaging classes with the
• Structure of a textbook.

Plus, ExEC offers

LMS Integration

In less than 5 minutes you’ll have your course imported into Canvas, Brightspace/D2L, Blackboard or Moodle.

Rubrics & Syllabi

ExEC integrated rubrics and starter syllabi make both course prep, and grading faster.

Student Engagement Online, In-Person, or Hybrid

No matter what format your class takes this Fall, ExEC has a set of exercises to engage your students:

• In-person
• Online synchronous
• Online asynchronous
• All of the above!

8 to 16-Week Schedules

ExEC is flexible enough for any schedule including:

• Accelerated MBA courses
• Quarter system courses
• 12-week Canadian semesters
• 15-week US semesters

For example…

Student Engagement Can Happen This Fall

Preview ExEC and see if it can help you and your students next year!

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What’s Next?

In an upcoming post, we will share information about our upcoming Summer Summit where we will share some exciting new exercises!

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