Entrepreneurship education and employability skills: the mediating role of e-learning courses

• DOI: 10.1007/s41959-021-00048-6
• Publication Date: 2021-05-31T08:02:46Z
• Authors: Prabhat Mittal; Simi Raghuvaran
• Keywords: Employability

With the rapid change in technology and learning approaches, Higher education institutions (HEI) are adopting new ways of digital learning in online environment along with entrepreneurship skills. Entrepreneurship skills build competencies in learners and increase their capabilities for putting knowledge into action and develop enterprises. Thus, student with entrepreneurial skills has better employability skill and an advantage to the workforce, the community and the country’s economy. However, the quality in higher education in present context needs to include other indicators like e-learning skills to better equip the students with entrepreneurship development as an integral part of the education process. The study is intended to help and identify the changing role and effectiveness of e-learning courses in influencing entrepreneurship skills by developing the sustainability-specific employability skills in students of Higher education institutions. The results conclude that there is a positive and significant mediating role of e-learning in explaining the relationship of entrepreneurship skills and students’ employability.