Toward a Teaching Model of the Entrepreneurship Course in Oman Using the Design Thinking Approach: The Inspiring COVID-19 Experience for Better Online Teaching

Since 2018, the entrepreneurship course in the Omani universities has become a university requirement one for all the disciplines followed by undergraduate students, thus focusing on the adequate pedagogy enhancing the student’s entrepreneurial competencies and traits, is a must. The choice of the content and the pedagogical approaches had always been very challenging for such a course, especially in the last COVID-19 pandemic, where online education was imposed for all the entrepreneurship instructors all over the world. The aim of this chapter is toward creating an effective online entrepreneurship teaching course using the “design thinking” approach. Drawing fresh literature dealing with the design thinking pedagogical teaching practices and methods while exploring the suitable outcomes from the entrepreneurship paradigms, a teaching model has been developed to highlight the suitable outcomes of the entrepreneurship course. The main originality of the research is to propose an online teaching method to improve the “Creative alertness”, self-efficacy and opportunity evaluation among the students. An interesting discussion may be developed regarding the standardization of the “toolbox” of successful entrepreneurship online teaching and training programs and the way of how measuring the effectiveness of their learning outcomes.