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Enterprise Education for Gig Economy: Future-Ready Students

Explore strategies on preparing students for freelancing in the gig economy through curricular enterprise education. Discover practical examples, best practices, resources, and reflective learning to equip students with essential skills.

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Enterprise Education for Gig Economy: Future-Ready Students

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  1. IEEC 2017 : Enterprise for 21st Century Working Lives A free agent or a hired gun? Preparing for life in the gigging economy through curricular enterprise education Amy Gerrard Prof. David Gibson OBE

  2. Overview • The landscape • Preparing the students • Examples • Strategies • Preparing yourself • Best practice • Reflective practice

  3. Freelancing 2005 : The Network “Don’t get into strangers’ cars and Don’t meet people off the internet”

  4. Freelancing 2017 : The Platform “Summon strangers from the internet and get into their cars”

  5. Are students prepared? What do they envisage in their future working lives?

  6. How do we prepare our Students for Freelancing Experiential Learning Build Enterprise Skills Create Awareness Bloom’s Taxonomy

  7. Reflection point: Am I going to freelance? • Enterprise Skills/Training • Resources and Guides to Freelancing • Films/Blogs/Discussions • Labour Force Survey • Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices • Gigging economy in the press/social media

  8. Curation of learning

  9. Reflection point: Can I freelance? • Assess their competencies with the E Factor Questionnaire (Gibson 2006) • Reflect on the results with a SWOT analysis • Find the successful you and create an elevator pitch

  10. Find the successful you • Students research their industry and the people who work in it. • Select a profile – how have they arrived there? • Set up a meeting • Prepare an elevator pitch

  11. Reflection point: What can I do now to prepare for freelancing? • Live Civic Projects • Guest Speakers that resonate • Experiential Learning

  12. Live Civic Projects • Product Design Professional Practice Assessment: Working in teams, engage in an outward facing project alongside real people, with real needs, in real time. ‘Use the City as a canvas for collaborative projects’

  13. Best practice exampleApplied Sports Psychology • A Curriculum Enhancement internship – Longitudinal/Level 8 • A collaborative project – ASP & Centre for Entrepreneurship • Led by an exemplar Intern (PhD level) Objectives • Embed coherent, critically aligned entrepreneurial education at level 4/5/6 • Lecture – Online task – Personal tutor session • Develop and deliver appropriate corresponding staff training

  14. The 21st Century Educator S.P. Bates (2015)

  15. Go to www.menti.com Enter the code 63 89 23 Describe how you prepare your students for a future that involves freelancing

  16. Reflection • What? • Do I effectively prepare my students to freelance? • What were/would be the consequences for the student? • What was good/bad about the experience? • So What? • What information did I base my actions on? • What other information is available? • Could /Should I make it better? • Now What? • What do I need to do to improve? • Broader issues I need to consider to be successful • What might be the outcomes of this change? Rolfe et al (2001)

  17. Now bring it together • Create the following action points for your CPD: • 21st Century Educator – where are your blind spots? • Best Practice – what will you take away from how others prepare their students? • Reflection points – which ones will stick?

  18. Questions Email me: a.gerrard1@ljmu.ac.uk Connect on twitter: @amygerr Email me: d.a.Gibson@ljmu.ac.uk

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