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MyLinkFace: Teaching Social Entrepreneurship

Lynn A. Fish and Ji-Hee Kim

The BRC Academy Journal of Education

Volume 4

Number 1

Print ISSN: 2152-8756 Online ISSN: 2152-8780

Date: March 15, 2014

First Page 23

Last Page 40

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15239/j.brcacadje.2014.04.01.ja02

Abstract

Teaching students’ ethically and socially responsible decision-making can be a daunting task for any instructor. This paper outlines a social entrepreneurship course that is built upon evolving best teaching practices in the area – reflection, mentoring and active learning, and demonstration of learning that occurs can be noted through a very successful outcome of course, a new venture. MyLinkFace, where students reach across international borders to deliver language services, demonstrates all aspects of social entrepreneurship including social innovation, financial sustainability, scalability, and social impact being balanced with entrepreneurial education themes of opportunity recognition, business models, growth strategies, and financial performance. Through the new venture, entrepreneurship students develop social entrepreneurial skills, education majors improve their teaching skills, and beneficiaries develop their conversational English language. Essentially, everyone wins!

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