Challenge based learning
Easily offer your students real-world challenges and make your course more relevant. TLC-FMG and REC Impact partnered up with the Master Challenge platform to help lecturers easily find real-world challenges for their students.
This will lower the threshold of adopting and organizing so-called Challenge-Based Learning (CBL). In courses that apply CBL, students solve real-world challenges from external stakeholders. They will apply theory to solve practical problems. While working on a challenge, they will build critical thinking and collaboration skills while delivering value to the external stakeholder and/or delivering societal impact.
Save time
By using the Master Challenge platform, lecturers can more easily and efficiently find societal partners to collaborate with in their courses, saving time and effort.
Improve your course
Students enjoy collaborating with societal partners during their courses because it allows them to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice, acquire practical skills, expand their networks and be of value to society.
Grow your network
The Master Challenge platform facilitates connections between teachers and societal partners which enables you to expand your network. This could be of value for research purposes and inviting guest speakers to your lectures in the future.
Use REC Impact space
At REC Impact we offer representative space to facilitate final student presentations and meetings with external partners.
Interested? Book an appointment:
How it works:
- Create a ‘Challenge Space’.
In this space, you describe the objectives, topics, and duration of your course by completing the form. Additionally, you specify the type of challenges and stakeholders you are looking for. - Receive challenges from external stakeholders.
Once you’ve published your ‘Challenge Space’, you only need to wait for challenges to be submitted by external stakeholders. You can also ask people in your own network to submit a challenge. - Review and publish the challenges.
Once the deadline for receiving challenges has passed, you can review the submitted challenges. Accept the ones that are suitable and, in consultation with the partner, refine the ones you are interested in but that are not yet suitable. - Student team signup (optional).
Request your students to sign up, review the challenges, and submit a ranking of their preferred challenges. - Matching teams to challenges (optional).
Rest assured, this will be automatically handled based on the preferences submitted by the student teams and the societal partners. If you prefer to create your own teams, this is also possible, of course. - Run the challenge.
Now it’s time to incorporate the challenges into your course. We recommend organizing a kick-off event where teams and partners can meet, discuss arrangements, and plan further steps.