• Design Your Future

    This course was developed for use across the Scottish Entrepreneurial Education Network (SEEN) and aligned with the Entrepreneurial Campus Blueprint.

  • Design Your Future is an Open Educational Resource (OER) created for Scottish college and university students who are navigating an increasingly uncertain, fast-changing world of work.

  • Design Your Future is an Open Educational Resource (OER) created for Scottish college and university students who are navigating an increasingly uncertain, fast-changing world of work.

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    Chapter 1:

    Introduction

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    Chapter 2:

    Introduction to Design Thinking

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    Chapter 3:

    Start Where You Are and Self-Analysis

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    Chapter 4:

    Tools for Self-Understanding

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    Chapter 5:

    Business Model You and the Purpose Statement

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    Chapter 6:

    Human and Social Capital

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    Chapter 7:

    Make Progress on Your Challenges and Validate Your Purpose

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    Chapter 8:

    Character, Self-Leadership and Trustworthiness

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    Chapter 9:

    Making Progress

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    Chapter 10:

    Mindset and Happiness

  • Entrepreneurial education isn't just about starting a new business, freelance, side hustle or community change-making project; it's about enabling every learner to spot opportunities, create value and make a difference. Design Your Future treats design thinking, entrepreneurship and positive psychology as core life capabilities - helping students across all disciplines make sense of complexity, explore possible futures, and take purposeful action in shaping their careers, happiness and well-being. It's about helping all students prepare for, and look forward to, meeting the challenges arising in the Future of Work.

    The course invites learners to reflect on their values, strengths, interests, and aspirations while developing practical tools for navigating ambiguity, change, and opportunity. Through structured exercises and reflective prompts, students practise design thinking, opportunity spotting, experimentation, reframing setbacks, building networks, and designing multiple possible career pathways rather than relying on a single fixed plan.

    The emphasis is on agency: encouraging learners to see themselves not as passive recipients of labour-market forces, but as active designers of their own professional and personal lives who can explore, adapt, learn what works, and co-create value in diverse contexts.

    Built to scale across Scotland’s colleges and universities, Design Your Future supports educators in embedding entrepreneurial mindset development within diverse programmes of study, co-curricular activities, and institution-wide initiatives. Its flexible, bite-sised format allows the resource to be integrated into existing modules and programmes, ensuring students across all subjects, levels, and backgrounds can inclusively and accessibly gain exposure to entrepreneurial methods and mindsets to help them flourish in the Future of Work.

    This course contributes to Scotland’s ambition to cultivate curious, creative, motivated, adaptable, empathetic, confident and resilient graduates who are prepared for a lifetime of learning, innovation, and societal contribution.

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