Even teachers never stop learning. When associate professor Dirk Fahland devised the Data Challenge course about seven years ago, together with other teachers in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, it took quite the effort.
After all, this was not to be a traditional course in which the teacher presents the theory to a group of students in large lecture halls and the students subsequently need to show that they have understood the material via an exam. No, students themselves would need to get down to work in groups with practical assignments. It wasn’t yet called Challenge-Based Learning, but that’s what it was.
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