1.5 Quick Guide

This is a Quick guide, meant to facilitate for you as a teacher to get started regardless if it is to set up a challenge based course for the first time or to develop an existing course. The Quick guide contains the most essential aspects you need to consider when designing a challenge based course. To learn more about these aspects, read the referred chapter(s).

To design a challenge based course:

(re)consider and (re)phrase the intended learning outcomes (Chapter 2)
decide how to formulate the project tasks (Chapter 2)
decide how to set up the student teams (Chapter 3)
decide how to guide, coach and assess the students (Chapter 3 and 4)
(re)consider what resources are needed for the students to fulfil the task (Chapter 2 and 3)
(re)consider how the course fits among other courses/ in the programme (Chapter 2).