Challenge-based education is on the rise! Students appreciate working on relevant challenges from external stakeholders. It allows them to learn by doing, it improves their skills, and it boosts their employability. However, organizing challenge-based education at scale, is a challenge in itself. That's why we created the Master Challenge platform.
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Experience from Dr. Neil Thompson
How it works
1. Create a 'Challenge Space
In this space you describe the aim, topics, and duration of your course. Next to that, you describe what kind of challenges (and companies) you’re looking for.
2. Receive challenges
Once you’ve published your Challenge Space you only have to wait for challenges to come in.
3. Review and publish challenges
Once the deadline for receiving challenges has passed you can review the challenges. Accept the ones that are suitable and refine (in consultation with the company) the ones that you are interested in, but are not yet suitable.
4. Student team signup
Ask your students to sign up, have a look at the challenges and submit a ranking of preferred challenges.
5. Matching teams to challenges
Don’t worry, this will be done automatically based on the submitted preferences of the student teams and the challenge companies.
6. Run the actual challenge
Now it’s time to run the challenge as part of your course. We suggest you organize a kick off event during which teams and companies meet each other and discuss arrangements and further steps.
Testimonials
As part of the joint master Entrepreneurship we offer the course ‘Venture Challenge’, in which students solve real-life challenges from startups and scale-ups. This ‘Master Challenge Platform’ allows us to easily find suitable challenges and to generate perfect matching between the companies and the student teams. A great platform for lecturers who want to improve their course in an efficient way!
Co-director of the Master Entrepreneurship (UvA / VU).
For the students it is a wonderful opportunity to work on real-life problems and to make an impact during their studies.
Assistant Professor and lecturer at the Utrecht University
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