Impactful social entrepreneurship education: A US-spanish service learning collaborative online international learning (COIL) project

Why this paper matters

Studies a seven-week US-Spain service-learning COIL project with social enterprises.

Evidence reviewed

Design: Exploratory multi-source qualitative study
Full-text status: Indexed PDF/full text reviewed

Principal finding

Students reported personal, social, and cognitive competency development through cross-border team problem solving.

EntrSL interpretation

This paper informs the design or evaluation of service-learning and experiential-learning work. Its findings should be interpreted within the reported design and context, not treated as universal or necessarily causal evidence.

Limitations and boundary conditions

Researcher-participant bias, exploratory design, and no strong comparison.

Scoring rationale

• EntrSL relevance: 5/5. Directness to service-learning, experiential learning, higher education, entrepreneurship, reflection, reciprocity, or institutional practice.
• Evidence quality: 3/5. Based on design transparency, sample or review breadth, analytical fit, and inferential limits.
• Journal standing is separate. OpenAlex two-year mean citedness and h-index are descriptive source metrics and do not increase this paper’s evidence score.

Citation

Maria Ballesteros-Sola; Nina Magomedova (2023). “Impactful social entrepreneurship education: A US-spanish service learning collaborative online international learning (COIL) project.” The International Journal of Management Education. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2023.100866