This document discusses the topic of edupreneurship, which is education combined with entrepreneurship. It provides examples of emerging trends in education that involve new technologies like virtual and immersive social networks as well as gamification. Edupreneurship allows for experimenting with new educational approaches and taking risks to drive innovation in the field of education.

1. Language
Edupreneurship
Stylianos Mystakidis
L6S Webinar, PAU Education, June 29 2012

2. Stylianos Mystakidis
• E-learning Specialist
Library, University of Patras
• Adjunct Faculty | Teaching Staff
> Open University of Catalonia
(Barcelona, Spain) @ WWW
> University of Washington (Seattle,
USA) @ Second Life
• Director of Immersive Worlds,
Learning Agency Network

3. 5/5/2011

6. during
formal
informal
before
a/er
synchronous
asynchronous

8. This
is
my
story!

9. Seal
of
Good
Teaching
Prac2ce
#mathisi20

11. Serendipity

12. Challenge!

13. why?

14. More change will happen in
education in the next ten years than
in the past one hundred.
Stephen Heppell (2011)

15. Quiz

16. MITx 1st course registrants >
MIT living graduates (122,000)
June 2012

18. Couros,
2008

19. Future of Education
Open,
Collabora2ve
Mass
Personalised

21. 3D Virtual Immersive
Social Networks

22. Gamification

23. Edupreneurship

24. Education +
Entrepreneurship

25. Love
Share
Take
Risks
Experiment
Experience/Par2cipa
Communicate
Learn
(PLN/PLE)
Open-­‐up

26. Virtual Communities of Practice

27. Unstoppable
people & teams
identify a goal
that really
matters to them
personally-
They refuse to
give up until that
goal is achieved.
Miami Heat, NBA
Champions 2012

28. whether you think you can
or you can’t you’re right!
3,8
180
42
x10

29. when was the last time you did
something for the first time?!