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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Challenge Based Learning

Challenge Based Learning

Today's employment needs go much beyond just having a degree. People need to effectively converse with one another, work as a team, identify problems and solutions to those problems, develop and implement improvement plans, effectively communicate to an audience, manage projects, etc. The skills necessary for these job requirements cannot be learned through traditional teaching methods such as the "lecture, notes, worksheet, quiz...." format. Students need to be in situations where they are first of all interested, taking ownership over learning something new, creating a plan to act on what has been learned.

Challenge based learning is a concept that teachers can try to promote to develop such learning and skills previously mentioned. Teachers need to start becoming more creative in encouraging students to take creative ownership in learning and then challenging themselves to act on what has been learned to better themselves and society. Challenge based learning offers this vision! Learn more...

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