An empirical investigation of the effectiveness of online entrepreneurship education among university students in Egypt

Abstract

Since providing entrepreneurship education to students without examining its impact might not lead to achieving the desired goals, coupled with the lack of research on the impact of online entrepreneurship education, it is important to understand the role and effectiveness of this medium of teaching to develop entrepreneurial students. Thus, this study explores the direct effect of online entrepreneurship education on Egyptian students' entrepreneurial attitude, self-efficacy, and interest, to inform educators if they will need to adjust their pedagogical approaches, to improve the students' learning outcomes and as well universities to put right strategies for their online entrepreneurship education programs. A survey based on the Engineering Entrepreneurship Survey developed by Duval-Couetil, Reed-Rhoads and Haghighi, was emailed to a total of 400 university students enrolled in entrepreneurship courses, divided into two groups according to the medium of delivery. The results have shown that online EE has a positive impact on students, however, it remains less than online EE.