Adding 21st Century Skills through Experiential Learning: Delivering Operations Management to Undergraduate Students

<p>The poster reports the experience of using a Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) approach in Operations Management (OM) education, with a focus on Industry 4.0 technologies, at a UK University. The UoL4.0 Challenge CBL approach is an initiative that implements CBL in an OM module. The OM module was designed to provide the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to solve challenges concerning digital technologies implementations within real organizations. The Poster explores the effectiveness of the UoL4.0 Challenge in addressing experiential learning and evaluates the appropriateness of CBL to developing 21st Century Skills. Results suggest that the proposed CBL approach is an experiential learning approach that may increase students’ understanding of OM in real-life settings and can be conducive to students’ development of 21st century skills.</p>