Challenge based learning
What is it?
Challenge-based learning:
• Exposes students to real problems, allowing the development of transforming leadership competencies, making them more competitive for today's world.
• Generates motivation and a sense of achievement.
• Links students to the environment, generating tangible value.
• Provides challenging experiences that develop entrepreneurship and a sense of humanity.
• Is experiential, collaborative and integrates knowledge.
How are we implementing it?
Week i
In this week, all undergraduate students participate simultaneously in innovative activities that promote learning and enhance exit competencies.
Week i activities are channeled toward:
• Enriching students' education and profile through innovative, challenging learning experiences.
• Developing disciplinary and transversal competencies.
• Promoting collaborative, multidisciplinary work.
Semester i
An experiential learning experience where, across an academic semester, courses are studied in modules in order to generate proposals and solutions regarding projects or real problems in companies and organizations. As a result, students develop the disciplinary and transversal competencies pertaining to their profession.