EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: HARNESSING IMMERSIVE LEARNING FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSETS.

Abstract

Disciplines like engineering, medicine, biological sciences, sciences, physiotherapy and lately education are among disciplines where emerging technologies have become prominent and beneficial to students. Emerging technologies in business education and entrepreneurship are innovative thoughts of science which includes technologies in education, information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics and  artificial intelligence amongst others, with characteristics such as radical, novelty, coherence, prominent impact, relatively fast growth uncertainty and ambiguity. For entrepreneurial mindsets, business education and entrepreneurship students adopt the use of immersive learning (virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and simulations) since it is a catalyst for the understanding and retention of complex concepts. The paper however made the following recommendations amongst others, that university management should network or synergise with the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the TET-Fund to equip business education and entrepreneurship faculties or departments with the latest information communication technologies (ICT) in order to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and lecturers in business education and entrepreneurship should be retrained  in terms of workshop on the imperative of mixed reality in the 21^st century.