Challenge-based learning an emergent educational model for Engineering Education in the post-COVID era

Abstract

The transformation of education is constant, technological advances, the evolution of science, new concepts, new challenges, new experiences and global situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic make it necessary to have educational models that go at the same speed of change and adaptation. In the same way, teachers must be increasingly prepared and open, receptive, willing to face current challenges through continuous training so that they can keep up with the pace of development. In the same way, students are increasingly technological, active and voracious in acquiring knowledge. In general, students today are “digital natives” and teachers aged 40 and over are mostly “technological migrants” which puts the faculty at a disadvantage that has to be reduced to the maximum.