What is Challenge-Based Learning (CBL)?
At TU/e innovation Space, we like to think of Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) as an educational philosophy, a way of thinking about learning and teaching. It is a student-centric approach to education that fosters creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, while providing students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge to real-world challenges. It is gaining increasing attention in higher education as a way to prepare students for the complex and rapidly changing world they will face after graduation.
Getting started with CBL?
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Take a quick test to find out which aspects of CBL you are most interested in and motivated to focus on, to redesign your curriculum! Download the CBL Wheel of Life down below and follow the instructions here.
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Let yourself be inspired by education innovation stories from teachers, learn how a Challenge-Based Learning course can look like from best practices, or kick-start the (re)design process of your curriculum with our hands on methods!
Why CBL
Get inspired by teachers’ stories who experienced the benfits of CBL in their teaching practice
Methods
Discover methods and approaches to transform you educational content towards CBL
Cases
Dive into great examples that show how CBL works in practice within higher education
Highlights
T-shaped professionals
T-shaped professionalsHow might we (re)design this course/project so that students develop as T-shaped professionals? In this workshop, you will brainstorm ways to educate students to become problem-solvers with a deep understanding and expertise in a specific area...
Stakeholder involvement
Stakeholder InvolvementHow might we (re)design this course/project so that more stakeholders are involved? In this workshop, you will brainstrom ways to involve individuals and groups with a vested interest in the challenge being addressed. These may be community...
Global themes
Global ThemesHow might we address global themes through the content of this course/project? In this workshop, you will make the content of your course/project deal with broad, interdisciplinary topics that reflect real-world issues and challenges. In your...
Miguel Bruns
"I wanted my students to follow a very strict design process. I ended up having a lot of unhappy students at that time because they wanted to have their own vision and identity and not mine. Hence, I started to revise and reconsider my procedures. I think one of the...
Isabelle Reymen
There is a demand, from society and industry, for engineers capable of interdisciplinary collaboration, with an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability of thinking in systems […]. In our ever changing world, CBL is the educational concept that fulfils many of these...
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