Gary Ernst is Coleman Foundation Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business and Professor of International Business and Marketing at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.
In this seminar held the 2008 SEA (Self-Employed Artists) conference, Gary Ernst of North Central College leads a discussion on innovation in the arts classroom, centering on how to get arts students engaged with non-art content, like business courses. He also discusses the merits of nontraditional teaching tools such as the internet in bringing content to students, and helps audience members learn how to navigate departmental politics in order to successfully innovate in the classroom.
In this segment of a seminar held the 2008 SEA (Self-Employed Artists) conference, Gary Ernst of North Central College traces the evolution of the course materials for his introductory-level entrepreneurship course away from a textbook and toward a collection of internet links and supplementary short readings. From this, he draws some observations about how the preferred learning style of today's college students has changed, and shares some strategies that his colleagues are employing to keep their students engaged with the material. He then takes audience questions on this subject about managing a transition to a textbookless course.
In this segment of a seminar held the 2008 SEA (Self-Employed Artists) conference, Gary Ernst of North Central College talks with an audience of arts faculty about the challenges they face when trying to impart basic business knowledge to a student body who may not see a clear and present need to learn such concepts, and about the tension inherent in teaching art students about business.
In this segment of a seminar held the 2008 SEA (Self-Employed Artists) conference, Gary Ernst of North Central College talks with an audience of arts faculty about the tension inherent in teaching art students about business, and how to mollify students and faculty who may believe that art is above the concerns of making a living.
In this segment of a seminar held the 2008 SEA (Self-Employed Artists) conference, Gary Ernst of North Central College talks with the audience about incorporating the key concepts of entrepreneurship into other courses, how to bring out the entrepreneurial side of courses in other fields, and how specifically to bring entrepreneurship into teaching the arts.
