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Tuning the entrepreneurship education teaching methods to students’ learning style

The literature review suggests that focus of higher education has been switching to being learning (student) driven rather than teacher centred. There has been much discussion on the different methods that can be used to enhance the learning experience of students. This paper utilizes the experiential learning theory and explores impact of the individual learning style on the effective entrepreneurship learning. The main aims of this paper were (i) to unveil the differences between learning styles among students enrolled in entrepreneurship education programmes ; (ii) to discuss the implications that different learning styles have has on creation an effective pedagogy for entrepreneurship education programmes. Based on the Kolb’s learning style inventory instrument (Kolb, 2005) the preliminary research of the student learning styles was conducted in 2009 on the convenient sample of 228 students from the various educational programmes at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Croatia. The main results indicated there are some differences in the learning styles among students of various levels of the study, age and working experience. The determination of the individual learning style can be a valuable tool for making learning more effective from the individual as well as organizational point of view. The paper suggested the various ways to enhance particular learning stage or learning outcome.

entrepreneurship education; learning outcomes; learning style; learning style inventory; entrepreneurial learning methods

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