The role of academic and extra-academic actors in transdisciplinary challenge-based learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21691691 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gemma O’Sullivan (0000-0003-2780-7464, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Yvette Baggen (0000-0001-6284-3925, Wageningen University & Research), Cassandra Tho (0000-0002-7142-835X, Wageningen University & Research), Despoina Georgiou (0000-0002-3376-4192, Utrecht University), Helena J M Pennings (0000-0002-4881-7648, University Medical Center Utrecht), Antoine van den Beemt (0000-0001-9594-6568, Eindhoven University of Technology) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1756-1772 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-2517 • E-ISSN: 1470-1294 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13562517.2025.2468978 |
| OpenAlex | W4407947829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
To solve societal, sustainability-related issues, higher education requires new and innovative didactical concepts in learning. We introduce the concept of transdisciplinary-CBL (T-CBL) to explicate the role of diverse disciplinary and extra-academic actors in learning processes where students work in teams to co-create innovative solutions to societal challenges. To increase our understanding of how students learn from different actors in T-CBL, we used a survey, semi-structured interviews and sociograms to elaborate the nature of interactions with and the value students ascribed to these actors. The results show that students learn from a wide variety of actors in T-CBL. Extra-academic actors help by contributing expertise and informing solution pathways, whereas friends and family provide emotional support. T-CBL results in specific learning gains including perspective-taking. The results offer a picture of T-CBL as social learning in which students interact with networks of actors from which they learn ‘on-demand’
Engineering ethics · Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Biomedical and Engineering Education · Educational Games and Gamification · Educational Leadership and Innovation · Engineering · Psychology
Higher Education, Sustainability, and the Role of Systemic Learning
Becoming Transdisciplinary
The art of case study research
Setting parameters for developing undergraduate expertise in transdisciplinary problem solving at a university-wide scale
Challenge-based learning in higher education
Learning in Faculty Development
Boundaries and Boundary Objects
Discourses of transdisciplinarity
Qualitative inquiry and research design
Transdisciplinary institutionalization in higher education
Enabling Effective Problem-oriented Research for Sustainable Development
Thematic networks
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |