Release - 30 April 2024: ENTER-CBL Pre-implementation Report
On 30 April 2024, the ENTER-CBL consortium released the Pre-implementation Report for WP4 (ENTER-CBL Online Platform). The document was published to clearly define what the platform should achieve before any technical development decisions were finalized.
In simple terms, this report answers a practical question: what kind of online environment is needed to support entrepreneurship education delivered through Challenge-Based Learning - and how can it be implemented in a reliable, scalable way across different higher education institutions?
Why this report matters
CBL is not a “upload materials and finish” approach. Students work in teams, build evidence, create artefacts, iterate solutions, and reflect on outcomes. Teachers facilitate, guide progress, and assess learning through process as well as results. The platform therefore needs to support a living learning process, not only store files.
What is inside the Pre-implementation Report
The report is structured as a roadmap for platform development and includes:
- Context and objectives - how the ENTER-CBL Platform should function as a resource hub for teachers, methodologists, and students, and as a supporting tool for the NextGen Entrepreneurs course.
- Functional requirements - what the platform must do, including a resource repository, collaboration tools, search and navigation, real-time communication, analytics and reporting, and strong security and privacy measures.
- Non-functional requirements - what the platform must be like, including accessibility, usability, responsive design, scalability, reliability, compliance with standards, testing and quality assurance, and open-source adoption.
- Review of LMS options - a practical look at existing Learning Management Systems and how they evolved into full learning ecosystems, especially after the pandemic.
- Recommendation - a clear rationale for choosing Moodle as the preferred solution, mainly due to open-source flexibility, long-term sustainability, strong feature coverage, and partner familiarity.
The key takeaway
The Pre-implementation Report concludes that using Moodle as the foundation of the ENTER-CBL Platform is the most effective approach: it supports the required learning features, reduces cost and risk compared to building a new LMS from scratch, and enables the project to focus on what matters most - high-quality CBL-based entrepreneurship education.
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