ICS2000-12-02: The Design, Development, and Evaluation of VCommerce: A Virtual Environment to Support Entrepreneurial Learning - M. Moffett

This thesis describes VCommerce, a virtual environment whose goal is to significantly increase students' knowledge of the process involved with starting a high tech company, and through hands-on experience enhance their confidence in their ability to start such a company. The thesis presents the design and implementation of the environment, and a case study of its use in a graduate course comprised of 50 students from amongst the computer science, business school,engineering, and other departments. A course survey and fourteen post-semester interviews show that students felt the class was extremely effective in teaching entrepreneurship concepts, and that they have learned valuable lessons about managing an Internet startup.

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