Challenge Based Learning: Innovative Pedagogy for Sustainability through e-Learning in Higher Education

May Portuguez Castro and Marcela Georgina Gómez Zermeño
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May Portuguez Castro: School of Humanities and Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, Mexico
Marcela Georgina Gómez Zermeño: School of Humanities and Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo León, Mexico

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-15

Abstract: Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) is an innovative teaching methodology that engages students to resolve real-world challenges while applying the knowledge they acquired during their professional training. This article describes the results of the implementation of an online course on entrepreneurship that utilized CBL with a group of 20 undergraduate students from various disciplines in a university in Mexico. During the course, challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations were presented to the participants, making it possible to observe the students’ interest in resolving these problems. This research uses a case study methodology and seeks to determine the CBL elements in the e-learning modality. The results showed that the participants generated sustainable business ideas aimed to resolve local, national, and global problems. The recommendations are to continue the formation of the businesses proposed in the project. These ideas can become real ventures that connect various actors in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and will continue to strengthen transversal skills such as teamwork and communication.

Keywords: challenge-based learning; education in sustainability; e-learning; educational innovation; higher education; sustainable development goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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