Education is changing. Rapid advances in technology, including artificial intelligence, evolving professional practices, and increasingly complex challenges are reshaping the knowledge, skills, and dispositions learners need to thrive. The world needs, and employers increasingly value, graduates who can collaborate across disciplines, develop thoughtful responses to authentic challenges, adapt to change, and continue learning throughout their careers.

Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) offers a practical response to these shifts. By engaging learners in meaningful challenges, CBL integrates disciplinary knowledge, skill development, collaboration, reflection, and action in ways that mirror the complexity of the world beyond the classroom. By requiring learners to investigate, analyze, synthesize, create, and reflect, CBL helps guard against the cognitive bypass that can occur when technology is used to replace rather than support learning.

This two-day interactive workshop introduces Challenge-Based Learning by combining direct experience with practical design. Participants first experience CBL as learners by working through a real challenge and then apply what they have learned to design CBL experiences for their own courses and programs.

Designed for faculty, instructional designers, academic leaders, and learner support professionals, the workshop providesexperience, practical tools, implementation strategies, and a collaborative planning process that can be adapted across disciplines.

Participants will:

– Experience the Engage, Investigate, and Act phases of CBL.
– Explore how CBL supports learning in the age of AI.
– Examine the role of inquiry, collaboration, and authentic assessment.
– Design a CBL experience appropriate for their own context.
– Leave with an implementation blueprint and next steps.

Trainer: Mark Nichols – The Challenge Institute
Workshop programme is available here.

WHEN

24 to 25 November, 2026

WHERE

Onsite, at ITU

APPLICATION DEADLINE

11 September 2026

Please note that capacity for this in-person training is limited. Applications will be reviewed, and selected participants will receive a confirmation of participation.