The MBE Program is a unique ACTIVEclassTM compliant practical, experience-based entrepreneurship NPQTM program based on the principle of impacting entrepreneurial SEEKTM (skills, expertise, experience, and know-how) through active engagement and practice.
This NPQTM Program is designed to provide intensive entrepreneurial immersion training in Media-Business Entrepreneurship SEEKTM development for the next generation of Media-Business Entrepreneurs setting up and building their Media-Businesses in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) Economy (FIRETM).
As an NPQTM program, the MBE Program is not a paper qualification (certificate/diploma) based program where participants work towards getting a paper qualification at the end of the Program through taking and passing required course assignments, tests, or exams and getting grades for them. Your qualification on the MBE Program is Your Media-Business Startup which one is expected to establish before enrolling on the Program or set up during the Program or startup after completing the Program.
This is an NPQTM – No Paper Qualification Program
No Paper Qualification on Completion
MBE – Your Qualification is Your Media-Business Startup
Online
9 – 12 months
13
52
January 2025
September 2025
English
The MBE Program is targeted at Prospective Media-Business Entrepreneurs yet to commence Business and aspiring to start their Startup Business as Founder or Co-Founder and get into Business.
The LKDATM– Outcome ACTIVEclassTM Mode of Program Delivery
The Business world is littered with Business Founders running Businesses employing knowledgeable and experienced staff with the extensive business and technical expertise needed for running the Business without themselves having some practical entrepreneurial or business background to start with. So, we have you covered if you belong to this category of those who want to be successful Entrepreneurs in the 4IR Economy without entrepreneurial background or work experience.
16 Weeks (Intensive Self-Pace Study)
This Program is made up of a number of Program Engagement Sessions (PESs). Each PES comprising a number of designated Units of Study (USETM) has an expected duration equivalent to a one-week session on the Program. Some Participants on the Program may spend less than a week and others more than a week during a given PES.
Intensive Online ACTIVEclassTM Activity-Based Learning-by-Involvement (LbI) and Knowing-by-Doing (KbD).
Participants on iCSEP are expected during each PES to undertake and complete specific ACTIVEclassTM active-engagement Learning-by-Involvement (LbI) and Knowing-by-Doing (KbD) LKDATM – Outcome practical entrepreneurship actions, activities, and tasks (AATs) for acquiring specific entrepreneurial SEEKTM. Participants are expected to complete the ACTIVEclassTM LDKATM-Outcome AATs corresponding to each of the Units of Study (USETM) designated for a given PES before moving on to the next PES.
The FoBAs of the MBE Program identifies the Business products, systems, or services that Media-Business Entrepreneurs are expected to be engaged in as the focus area of their Media-Business Enterprise.
| The MBE Focus of Business Areas (FoBAs) |
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| Advertising Products and Services |
| Media Management Products and Services |
| Graphic Design Products and Services |
| Digital Journalism Products and Services |
| Television Products and Services |
| Film Production Services |
| …and Many More |
Each of the Program Modules comprises a number of Sub-Modules, each constituting several Units of Study Engagement (USETM). The delivery of each USETM under its designated Program Engagement Session (PES) is based on specific ACTIVEclassTM active-engagement Learning-by-Involvement (LbI) and Knowing-by-Doing (KbD) practical entrepreneurship LDKATM-Outcome AATs targeted at acquiring specific entrepreneurial SEEKTM
| The Units of Study Engagement (USE) |
|---|
| Understanding the Media-Business Environment and the Media-Business Industry Locally and Globally |
| Knowing What they Say About the Prospects and the Future of the Media-Business in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) Economy (FIRE) |
| Knowing About Media-Business Entrepreneurship and Utreprenership in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) Economy (FIRE) |
| Knowing a Thing or Two About Who Are the Media-Business Entrepreneurs |
| Knowing Why Media-Business Entrepreneurs are Some of the Key Movers and Shakers of the in Today’s Business World Locally & Globally |
| Knowing Why Media-Business Entrepreneurs are Everywhere and are involved in Almost Everything Made, Created, or Built in the Global Media-Business |
| Knowing the Importance of Being a Media-Business Entrepreneur in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) Economy (FIRE) |
| Knowing What It Takes to Stand on the Shoulders of Giant Media-Business Entrepreneurs and Learn From Their Notable Accomplishments as Well as Mistakes and Tribulations on their Entrepreneurship Journey |
| Knowing What It Takes to be Media-Business Entrepreneur in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) Economy (FIRE) |
| Knowing What it Takes to Develop and Secure Your Media-Business Entrepreneurial Foundation |
| Knowing What it Takes to Embark on Your Media-Business Entrepreneurial Journey in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) Economy (FIRE) |
| Knowing What it Takes as a Media-Business Entrepreneur to ‘Bite More Than You Can Chew’ and Still Chew it to Build and Grow Your Media-Business |
| Knowing How to Spot ‘Easier Say Than Done’ Decisions and Still Do It on Your Media-Business Entrepreneurial Journey |
| Knowing How to Think Like a Media-Business Entrepreneur: Embracing the ‘I can do it better and different’ Thinking and Mentality |
| Knowing What it Takes to Embrace and Practice as a Media-Business Entrepreneur inspired by the George Bernard Shaw Credo – “You see things, and you say Why? But I dream things that never were, and I say, Why not.” |
| Knowing What it Takes to Manage Your Media-Business Entrepreneurial Anxieties |
| Need to Know Why Making the Choice and the Decision to be Media-Business Entrepreneur is a Good One |
| Need to Know How to Stay on Course on Your Media-Business Entrepreneurial Journey even if the Going Get Tough |
| Knowing What it Takes to Succeed as a Media-Business Entrepreneur: The Media-Business Entrepreneurial Motivational PEP Talk. |
| Knowing How to Take and Heed the Advise of Media-Business Entrepreneurs Who Have Been There |
| Knowing Where to Start on Your Media-Business Entrepreneurial Journey |
| Knowing the Critical Media-Business Entrepreneurship SEEK You Must Get and Practice to Start, Build and Grow Your Media-Business and be a Successful Media-Business Entrepreneur in the 4IR Economy. |
| The Units of Study Engagement (USE) |
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| Knowing What it Takes to Motivate and Inspire Yourself to Commence Your Media-Business Utrepreneurship Journey without Holding Back |
| Knowing What it Takes to Make Your Media-Business Pre-Launch Crisis Judgement Calls |
| Knowing What it Takes to Make Your Media-Business Pre-Launch Strategic Judgement Calls |
| Knowing What it Takes to Make Your Media-Business Pre-Launch Business Funding Judgement Calls |
| Knowing What it Takes to Make Your Media-Business Pre-Launch People Judgement Calls |
| Knowing What it Takes to Ignite Your Media-Business Entrepreneurial Business Startup |
| Knowing What it Takes to Have the Requisite Entrepreneurial Leadership Skills (ELS) to Lead Your Media-Business from a Startup to a Successful Business |
| Knowing How to Scope the Nature of Your Media-Business |
| Knowing How to Identify and Crystalize the FoBA for Your Media-Business |
| Knowing How to Spot a Gap in the Market for the Products/Services of Your Media-Business |
| Knowing How to Develop Your Viable Entrepreneurial Media-Business Idea (VEBI) |
| Knowing How to Put Together a Viable Business Preposition (VBP) for Your Media-Business |
| Knowing How to Craft the Entrepreneur Statement of Business Intention Aspiration (ESBIP) for Your Media-Business |
| Knowing What it Takes to Take Off in Business as a Media-Business Entrepreneur |
| Knowing What it Takes to Commerce Your Media Business from an Existing Business |
| Knowing What it Takes to Sustain Your Passion for Setting Up and Running Your Media-Business |
| Knowing What it Takes to be a Creative Media-Business Entrepreneur |
| Knowing How to Ask the Media-Business Entrepreneurial ‘what-if’ ‘Doing it Better and Different’ Questions |
| Knowing How to do Your Media-Business QDA -- The Quick & Dirty Analysis – The 4Ws |
| Knowing How to Figure out Your ‘Assets’ and Build on them for Your Media-Business Success |
| Knowing How to do Your Media-Business SWACOP (Strengths, Weakness, Assets, Challenges, Opportunities & Possibilities) Analysis |
| Knowing How to do Your Media-Business Entrepreneurship Venture Viability Analysis - EVVA |
| Knowing How to do Your Media-Business Enterprise BPC –Business Preposition Crystallization |
| Knowing How to Taxonomize Your Media-Business Product Offerings |
| Knowing How to Recognize and Do Something About Your Media-Business Weaknesses and Do Something About Strengthening Your Media-Business Strengths |
| Knowing the True and Critical Customers of Your Media-Business Products/Services |
| Knowing What it Takes to Come Out with the Minimum Viable Product/ Service (MVP/MVS) for Your Media-Business |
| Knowing What It Takes to Create the Product/Service for Your Start-UP Media-Business |
| Knowing What is Required to Produce Your Media-Business Finished Products/Services for the Market |
| Knowing What it Takes and What is Required to Start Your Media-Business Startup if you are yet to commence business |
| Knowing How To Get On Top Of Your Business Your Media-Business Enterprise Start-Up Challenges |
| Knowing What it Takes to Ensure that Your Qualification is Your Media-Business Startup |
| The Units of Study Engagement (USE) |
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| Knowing What it Takes to Launch Your Media-Business Product/Services on the Market |
| Knowing What it Takes to Market and Promote Your Media-Business Product/Services on the Market |
| Knowing What it Takes to Manage and Run Your Post-Launch Media-Business |
| Knowing How to Make Your Media-Business Post-Launch Crisis Judgement Calls |
| Knowing How to Make to Make Your Media-Business Post-Launch Strategic Judgement Calls |
| Knowing How to Make to Make Your Media-Business Post-Launch Business Funding Judgement Calls |
| Knowing How to Make to Make Your Media-Business Post-Launch People Judgement Calls |
| Knowing What it Takes to Put Together a Team to Manage Your Up and Running Post-Launched Media-Business |
| Knowing What it Takes to Source and Mobilize Funds and Investment to Develop and Accelerate Your Media-Business |
| Knowing What it Takes to Handle Challenges in the Way of Developing Your Media-Business |
| Knowing What it Takes to Recognize and Avoid Costly Mistakes Media-Business Entrepreneurs Make |
| Knowing What it Takes to Get and Work with Your Media-Business Mentors to Accelerate the Development of Your Media-Business |
| Knowing What it Takes to Make Your Media-Business FOOTPRINTS |
| Knowing What it Takes to Move Your Media-Business From One Level to the Next |
| Knowing What it Takes and What is Required to Build and Grow Your Fully Operational and Up and Running Media-Business |
Associate Degree is $550/Module
Bachelor’s Degree is $550/Module