Women in Entrepreneurship: Effective Strategies for Online Training and Development

From Lab to Fulfillment (FL2F) is a workshop that aims to support female academics entrance into the world of entrepreneurship.The program began as an in-person work-shop which has since transitioned into an online format supported by numerous custom applets to facilitate a variety of exercises.The workshop participants are professors coming from engineering and medical faculties who want to bring their research to market but are un-sure of how to start.Many previous workshop participants have since had successful startup launches in a di-verse industries ranging from Nano Technology to Medical Imaging.While previous work has characterized and optimized aspects of our teaching using machine learning, this work focuses on addressing feedback received from participants and examining our technology to refine and improve outcomes.As we are reflecting on the lessons learned from the past several years of course development we have identified and addressed key challenges regarding the scholarship of teaching and learning.Our iterative, technologydriven approach to course development continues to evolve with the goal of improving outcomes among participants.