Challenging Mind: The Challenge-Based on Learning Revolution

Abstract

Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) is an educational approach that focuses on presenting students with challenges that require creative solutions. This article examines the positioning of students from several areas of knowledge, from the UNAN-MANAGUA Regional University Center (CUR-Chontales), who participated in the Latin American Innovation Rally, 2023, which uses this approach, regarding the effect that it has in the development of skills, creativity, and analysis of risks in decision-making in students. The study found that, from the student's perspective, challenge-based learning can promote the development of key competencies, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication.

Regarding creativity, the challenge-based learning developed in the Rally the motivation of the generation that had the original ideas and the exploration of innovative solutions, by creatively facing pre-established problems to find effective solutions. Creativity is intrinsically linked to decision making, the study noted that challenge-based on learning provides students with the opportunity to practice making informed and reflective decisions. When facing challenging situations, students must evaluate different options and consider the implications and consequences of their decisions. For these reasons and more, the study supports the idea that challenge-based on learning can have a positive impact, if it is incorporated into the components of UNAN-MANAGUA competency-based curriculum.