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CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, AND PEDAGOGY article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Leadership in Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1413974
This article is part of the Research Topic Continuing Engineering Education for a Sustainable Future View all 7 articles

Strategies for effective CBL implementation: from company selection to course evaluation

Provisionally accepted
Virgilio Vasquez Lopez Virgilio Vasquez Lopez 1*Moises Millan-Ramos Moises Millan-Ramos 2Refugio Maldonado-Carrillo Refugio Maldonado-Carrillo 3
  • 1 School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Monterrey, Mexico
  • 2 Other, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 3 GENERAC Mexico Technology Center, Mexico City, Mexico

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    In this study, we explore the key factors that educators must consider when designing challenges based on the Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) strategy, where the industrial sector serves as the educational partner. Building on our proposed definition of the CBL technique, we outline a methodology complete with practical suggestions to effectively tackle the challenges encountered during the strategy's implementation. The recommended steps involve choosing a training partner, establishing the company's role in the challenge, taking economic factors into account, and pinpointing crucial milestones in the course development, which includes recognizing the partner's involvement and significance in the course evaluation. Our proposal draws from the authors' experiences in applying this methodology within the context of an Industrial Automation course.

    Keywords: Academia-industry collaboration1, challenge-based learning2, educational innovation3, Higher Education4, Automation Company5, Engine Company6

    Received: 08 Apr 2024; Accepted: 07 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Vasquez Lopez, Millan-Ramos and Maldonado-Carrillo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Virgilio Vasquez Lopez, School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Monterrey, Mexico

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