Resumen:
The irruption of the so-called Industry 4.0 demands soft-skilled professionals who are able to face the huge challenges of the new millennium. To address this need, Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) is aimed at helping students to face, collaboratively with their professors, real challenges of organizations to provide workable solutions. Since Apple, over a decade ago, proposed and defined a new approach to teaching, Challenge-Based Learning has spread out over not only secondary but also higher education.
An action-research project on “Challenge-Based Learning in the classroom” was developed by a group of five instructors from Universidad Europea that implemented CBL on five subjects in the Business and Political Science areas during the 2018/19 course. Our study has used both quantitative and qualitative research techniques. On the one hand, we conducted a questionnaire survey to a sample of 73 students enrolled in courses that implemented the CBL methodology. The students pointed out a number of advantages derived from the application of the CBL methodology, notably the exposition to real global problems and the development of innovation, creativity and collaborative work skills. Additionally,...