Abstracts

Gaining more and more popularity, challenge-based learning (CBL) is a teaching approach that uses co-creation between an array of academic and external stakeholders to enable self-directed learning for students. CBL usually involves students from different disciplines working together in teams to ad...

Educational significance: Entrepreneurship education fosters "an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action" and helps young people become "more creative and self-confident in whatever they undertake" (European Commission, 2008, p. 7) and is, therefore, not limited to founding new businesses a...

Overall Relevance to the CBL Domain TU/e intends to accommodate more diverse learners flexibly (Lopez-Arteaga & Koenraad, 2023). To realize this intention, we initiated an education innovation project, in which TU/e Innovation Space and the Intelligent Lighting Institute collaborated to develop a mo...

Learning Together in CBL is a research project aimed at studying the epistemological perspectives of students, teachers and stakeholders in a collaborative process in challenge based learning. Epistemic perspectives encompass views on the nature of knowledge, the reliability of sources of informatio...

The ‘Product Innovation in the Food Industry’ course, offered in the final year of the Master of Science in Bioscience Engineering: Food Science and Nutrition at Ghent University, represents a key interdisciplinary initiative that fosters collaboration between students with different academic ba...

Relevance, Background, and Rationale While several definitions of Challenge Based Learning (CBL) exist in the literature, the concept of "challenge" remains largely undefined, often used with an implied sense that its meaning should be self-evident. The term "challenge" appears in multiple forms-as ...

Introduction The engineering profession is undergoing rapid transformation, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), virtual environments, and other emerging technologies that are reshaping traditional practices and frameworks (Engineers Europe, 2024). These innovations are essential ...

Exploring characteristics and transition challenges in challenge-based learning: A study of upper secondary and higher STEM education. This study explores the characteristics of Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) in secondary and higher STEM education settings in the Netherlands with the aim to uncover ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) use in higher education has shown rapid growth due to technological advancements, greater accessibility, and its role in supporting teaching and learning, research, and innovation. Within teaching and learning, AI has been applied in assessment and evaluation (e.g. plagi...

Introduction/Background Education is continually evolving to keep pace with society's transformations. With the grand societal challenges that the world faces today, there is a need to prepare students to make a difference (Opertti, 2023). Proper preparation also means that educational institutions ...

One of the main features of Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) is that the Challenge Provider (CP) is an actor external to the teaching setting. Often, this actor belongs to a different organisation becoming what we refer to as an external stakeholder. In the context of higher education institutions, we...

Overall Relevance to the CBL Domain This workshop addresses a significant gap in current Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) practices by focusing on the oft-missed integration of soft skills such as cooperation, (written) communication, critical thinking, and creativity into CBL curriculum. While CBL em...