NUST eLearning

This course aims to prepare students for the digital economy by empowering them to explore the opportunities that digital entrepreneurship has to offer and harness different online resources to establish digital bases enterprises. Upon successful completion of the course students will, through assessment activities, show evidence of their ability to:

1. Evaluate the Digital Economy concept, its impacts, influence, and challenges.
2. Develop a digital business strategy.
3. Examine platform business models and identify business opportunities they present to entrepreneurs.
4. Harness online resources to develop an online-based business.
5. Assist Small and Medium-Sized (SMEs) with digital transformation
6. Develop online content for digital entrepreneurship.
7. Apply digital communication and social networks to create digital business opportunities.

Disaster and Mass Incident Management is aimed at introducing the concept of mass incidents within the Namibia setting in order to improve emergency management and preparedness. 

Econometrics is a major part of degree programmes in economics. Indeed, economists, especially those in the areas of macroeconomic modelling and research, amongst others, need reasonable knowledge of this course in order for them to operate in a more efficient manner. Given this background, this course essentially aims at equipping the students with the basics of Econometrics as well as some aspects of Applied Econometrics. The students should be able to build econometric models, estimate econometric models, evaluate econometric models and also forecast macroeconomic variables.