This chapter provides a short overview of the history of Challenge-Based Learning (CBK) and its evolution as a pedagogical practicePedagogical practice in higher educationEducation. We discuss how CBL reshapes pedagogical approaches to learning and teaching as well as student engagement and self-directed learning in collaborative practices. The vignette included compares CBL to other experiential learningExperiential learning methods such as problem-based and project-based learningProject-based learning (PjBL). The chapter then discusses CBL's origins in both bioengineering at a higher educationEducation level and the Apple pilots at a high school level, both in the USA.