{"id":19965,"date":"2024-06-18T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/?p=19965"},"modified":"2024-06-18T08:50:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:50:26","slug":"cultivating-digital-landscape-with-smartville-partner-universities-in-zambia-and-in-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/en\/cultivating-digital-landscape-with-smartville-partner-universities-in-zambia-and-in-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating digital landscape with SmartVille partner universities in Zambia and in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SmartVille project partners (LAB 2024; SmartVille 2024) conducted a situational analysis of the current learning methods, entrepreneurial and digital skills, challenges and capacity gaps in the entrepreneurship education of project partners; University of Lusaka, Mulungushi University, University of Namibia and Namibia University of Science and Technology. In more detail, partners collected questionnaire data from students at the target institutions studying entrepreneurship, as well as from lecturers and community members. The community sample consisted of two villages in Zambia and two in Namibia, involving a total of 141 students, 16 lecturers, and 69 community members from Zambian and Namibian partner institutions (total of 226 respondents).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, project partners conducted two reports: 1) Community Approaches to Learning of Entrepreneurship Education and 2) Digital landscape and e-participation of formal and informal learning in communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Online teaching needs exercise<\/a>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the collected data, partners highlight several critical issues affecting the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and the entrepreneurial environment in the targeted regions, such as disparities in the required entrepreneurial skills, limited access to financial resources, markets, and essential business tools and infrastructure hinders entrepreneurial growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/06\/595_2024_Cultivating-digital-landscape-with-SmartVille-partner-universities-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"[Alt text: nine women standing in a row smiling.]\" class=\"wp-image-19966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/06\/595_2024_Cultivating-digital-landscape-with-SmartVille-partner-universities-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/06\/595_2024_Cultivating-digital-landscape-with-SmartVille-partner-universities-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/06\/595_2024_Cultivating-digital-landscape-with-SmartVille-partner-universities-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/06\/595_2024_Cultivating-digital-landscape-with-SmartVille-partner-universities-570x328.jpg 570w, https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/06\/595_2024_Cultivating-digital-landscape-with-SmartVille-partner-universities.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image 1. Partners planning project implementation on International Women\u00b4s Day, March 2024 in Finland. (Image: Terhi Tuominen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Community and business challenges were also identified, which included deficiencies in marketing, finance, and general business expertise. Based on the data collected, partners recommend curriculum enhancements, capacity-building initiatives for educators, improved access to financial resources, and the development of support networks for entrepreneurs. Lecturers and students have generally good skills across institutions in using online platforms for teaching and learning, covering both existing and new skills for various contexts (office work, fieldwork, students, and community). However, Mulungushi University was found to have a much larger need for training to raise competence in online teaching of entrepreneurship skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lecturers are sufficiently experienced in using online teaching platforms. Regarding teaching and learning methods, dialogue method, lectures, and problem-based learning are generally easy for both lecturers and students to use for teaching both new and old skills. However, project-based learning, self-directed learning, and innovation challenges were found to be more challenging for lecturers to implement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Later stages of the project <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The data collected for the project will be used as a preparatory work that guides the project implementation in the later stages of the project (establishing Smart Ville living labs, co-developing entrepreneurship education). Partners will visit Zambian partners in the fall 2024 where they visit two Living lab villages, introduce team learning methods (Ekman 2024) and entrepreneurial mindset training (Tuominen 2024). In addition, student Innovation Challenge is being implemented both locally and online with the students.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#b3edfb\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Author<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Terhi Tuominen<\/strong>, D. Sc. (Econ. &amp; Bus. Adm), works as a RDI expert in the SmartVille project and as a lecturer in the VALIOT project at the LAB University of Applied Sciences, Lappeenranta, Finland.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/06\/Erasmus_-flag-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19967\" style=\"width:277px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/06\/Erasmus_-flag-2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/06\/Erasmus_-flag-2-300x86.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ekman, M. 2024<strong>. <\/strong>SmartVille project: how to succeed in the implementation of team learning method? LAB Focus. Cited 12 Jun 2024. Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/en\/smartville-project-how-to-succeed-in-the-implementation-of-team-learning-method\/\">https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/en\/smartville-project-how-to-succeed-in-the-implementation-of-team-learning-method\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAB. 2024. Developing Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Villages Through Educational Living Labs in Namibia and Zambia. Project websites. LAB University of Applied Sciences. Cited 12 Jun 2024. Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.fi\/en\/project\/developing-sustainable-and-entrepreneurial-villages-through-educational-living-labs-namibia\">https:\/\/lab.fi\/en\/project\/developing-sustainable-and-entrepreneurial-villages-through-educational-living-labs-namibia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SmartVille. 2024. Project websites. Cited 12 Jun 2024. Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/smartvilleliginglabs.com\">https:\/\/smartvilleliginglabs.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuominen, T. 2024. SmartVille project introduced theatre combined with entrepreneurial mindset training at LAB. LAB Focus. Cited 12 Jun 2024. Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/en\/smartville-project-introduced-theatre-combined-with-entrepreneurial-mindset-training-at-lab\/\">https:\/\/blogit.lab.fi\/labfocus\/en\/smartville-project-introduced-theatre-combined-with-entrepreneurial-mindset-training-at-lab\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SmartVille project partners (LAB 2024; SmartVille 2024) conducted a situational analysis of the current learning methods, entrepreneurial and digital skills, challenges and capacity gaps in the entrepreneurship education of project partners; University of Lusaka, Mulungushi University, University of Namibia and Namibia University of Science and Technology. 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