Cross-border eCommerce Crash Course
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This 5-week online course teaches cross-border e-commerce skills through a drop-shipping business model. The course is designed for unemployed youth, disabled persons, stay-at-home parents, and retired citizens in Papua New Guinea. Participants will learn digital literacy skills, e-commerce entrepreneurship skills, and professional online communication etiquette. The course content covers topics such as drop-shipping, online platforms, search skills, banking, business registration, shipping, copyright, and setting up an online business. Participants will use Moodle Cloud for online learning resources and activities. Feedback will be collected to improve the course.
Cross-border eCommerce Crash Course
- 1. Course outline Title: Cross-border eCommerce (non-accredited) Duration: Five (5) weeks online Prerequisites: Basic English literacy, basic digital literacy Target audiences: Unemployed youth Physically disabled persons Stay at home parents Retired citizens Facilitators: Digital Disruption & Liklik Design Description: This is a non-accredited flexible learning training for participants who would like to acquire new knowledge, skills and self-enrichment. This crash course is designed to equip Papua New Guineans with digital literacies for life. A wide variety of ecommerce skills are demonstrated to empower absolute beginners with the basics to execute their passion and creative ideas in business. Content here is curated to match PNG business contexts. Participants will find government forms, banking methods, culturally contextualized resources and personal testimonies from Papua New Guinean ecommerce entrepreneurs to support their learning. Importantly, copyright laws and creative commons are covered to guide participants in product customization. In addition, netiquette is emphasized to help participants conduct professional customer service online. For a very long time startup capital was the main factor that hindered Papua New Guineans from establishing their own businesses. Thanks to innovations in technology today it is possible for anyone to operate a business without startup capital, physical stock, warehouse, staff to manage inventory or a brick-and-mortar shop. This course is based on the drop-shipping business model. Participants are guided through a step-by-step process from start to finish. Intended learning: I. Develop digital literacy skills for life II. Use technology to advance ecommerce entrepreneurial skills III. Practice netiquette in professional ecommerce communications IV. Acquire attitude to help improve living standards of fellow Papua New Guineans V. Develop attitude of helping our economy grow through nationally owned and run businesses
- 2. Content: What is drop-shipping? Ecommerce platforms Online search skills The BSP Visa debit card & business account Business name registration & Tax Identification Number Tracking items online (DHL, EMS, TNT & FedEx) Become an agent for a drop-shipper Getting started with your own business Professional business logo Your niche product Facebook shop Copyright vs Creative Commons Netiquette: etiquette on the internet G Suite: business domain & email setup Website and online shop setup Professional quotes & invoices Teaching & learning methods: Online: Full online delivery (no face-to-face component) Resources & Activities In built tools: Files (PDF, MP3, MP4, PNG, JPG), URLs (external web links), pages, books, folders, labels Discussion forums (asynchronous), chat (synchronous), feedback (evaluation tool), web conferencing (synchronous BigBlueButton), database, glossary, SCORM packages (HTML5) Platform: Moodle Matu cloud classroom is hosted on MoodleCloud. Moodle is an open-source learning platform used by over 100 million educators and learners across every country on the globe. Moodle Matu is a registered MoodleCloud site. The learning platform was created by teachers for teachers. Moodle headquarters is in Perth, Western Australia. Moodle development is guided by the social constructionist pedagogy: we learn best by communicating with each other via a collaborative environment. The acronym MOODLE stands for: Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. Supervision: MoodleCloud tools, email, mobile call & text messaging (face-to-face for Port Moresby learners) Evaluation: Towards the end, we invite all participants to evaluate our crash course online to help us improve this course to help more Papua New Guineans. We value your feedback. Contact: Call or text: (675) 7443 2443 Email: moodlematu@gmail.com