Learning English for Business and Entrepreneurship Using Coursera

Today, I'm going to deliver about online business and entrepreneurship course using Coursera. English for Business and Entrepreneurship is a course created by the University of Pennsylvania, and funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs.

There is 5 week to finish this course and we can set our goals to finish it. I set my goal is 2 days per week.

For the first week, there is 4 sub units and additional exercise for every unit. Week 1 they review why people become entrepreneurs and discuss the impact of entrepreneurship on people and their local economies. The language goals are reading skills and comparative structures. The content goals are understanding simple business and entrepreneurship concepts as well as the difference between a small business owner and an

The first unit that we learn is Introduction. In this unit, they introduction the main goals of this course. And this part we gonna select which word or phrase that we already know or not the meaning of it.

The second unit is "What is Entrepreneurship?"  In this unit, we learn definition about Entrepreneurship by understanding an articles also we have to do game and quiz to pass this unit. Minimum grade is 70% for every quiz.

Next, the third unit is "Why Entrepreneurship?" In this video, they explain how entrepreneurship helps the economy and discuss why people become entrepreneurs also talk about some of the challenges that entrepreneurs can have. There is three videos what would explain the materials of entrepreneurship and there will be articles we have to read and understanding. After that we should pass quiz with minimum grade 70% for every quizzes.

The forth unit is Products. In this video, we will explore a sample sentence structure for simple one-sentence product descriptions. Then, we should read an articles and pass quiz with minimum grade 70% for every quizzes.

Futher, the fifth unit is Startups. In this video, we learn about deciding on type of startup and we learn about definition also different between profit and non-profit. There is video who explain about risk, failure and important steps to build a business.  Then, we should read an articles and pass quiz with minimum grade 70% for every quizzes.

The last part in this unit is Additional Resources and Exercises. In this section we will reading some articles and doing quizzes. There is 5 articles with various themes.

It's very interesting to learn business and entrepreneurship with this course. I learn so many vocabularies that I wasn't know before. Also I learn who to build a business, actually it's so fun. That's all, thank you.

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English for Business and Entrepreneurship