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The individual economic benefits of higher education are largely determined by what students learn in the process of obtaining their degrees. Increasingly, for-profit companies that develop and sell digital courseware products influence what college students learn. Employees' pedagogical expertise, content knowledge, and understanding of organizational goals are likely to affect product characteristics and outcomes associated with the use of those products. This study draws on 15 months of ethnographic data to examine one organization's efforts to develop and sell courseware for use in higher education. The data suggest organization members' interpretations of educational access and quality support product development and sales efforts consistent with profit aims, but that may promote credentialism, negatively affect learning, and exacerbate quality differences across institutions.

This paper develops a novel Ignatian-based entrepreneurship education model that integrates dark side theories of entrepreneurship into entrepreneurship teaching to supplement traditional process-centered pedagogy. The model enables students to recognize psychological, well-being, and social problems that often accompany entrepreneurship and provides students with tools to overcome these problems as future entrepreneurs and as individuals who walk alongside other entrepreneurs. The model is rooted in the Universal Apostolic Preferences and the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm and can be integrated into entrepreneurship courses in Jesuit business schools and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Entrepreneurship ecosystem" is a popular buzz phrase among academicians, politicians, and practitioners. An ecosystem is the interaction of people, roles, infrastructure, organizations, and events that create an environment for heightened levels of entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurship education is a critical part of the system that warrants deeper examination. This paper explores entrepreneurship education as a nested sub-ecosystem within the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem by considering the context of the United States. By delving into a specific subsystem, we highlight the complexity often missed in higher level conversations on entrepreneurship ecosystems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]