Driving Institutional Innovation: Integrating CHARM-EU Practices into EDUflow

04 March 2025

Educational developers at ELTE have decided to integrate elements of the CHARM-EU educational approach into their flagship instructional design training programme EDUflow.

EDUflow is an ELTE training programme and scholarship aiming to provide teachers with a deeper professional knowledge and confidence in the field of digital pedagogy. The programme involves the completion of facilitated self-paced online courses connected to the various aspects of course design as well as presential training days focusing on collaboration, socialization, student support and more.

Image depicting EDUflow focus areas: communication, collaboration, socialization, student support, institutionl engagement and course design (including media and design, learning design, online learning environment, learning activities, teaching methods and assessment)

The initiative also contributes to the creation of a professional community of teachers open to actively engage in the educational development processes of the university in their respective environments. EDUflow instructional designers will take up various supporting roles in teaching methodology, roles that have been tailored to their individual strengths as specific course design personas.

These personas have been formulated by the management team of EDUflow based on considerations related to supporting institutional strategic development and also include tasks that support the internal dissemination of CHARM-EU outcomes. EDUflow has started to actively integrate elements of the CHARM-EU educational and professional development methodologies into its operation. The new EDUflow cohort will also participate in a half-day CHARM-EU related training session.

“What makes this programme special is that we focus on the process. Course development itself is a kind of by-product of the learning journey. We are creating a community of practice dedicated to educational development, a network of experienced teachers across the university, who can champion pedagogical innovation at ELTE. Thanks to the EKA grant and the sponsoring faculties the teachers involved are financially supported to study in this project during their working hours.” – Krisztina Lénárt, ELTE EDUflow Project Leader

To further promote the internal dissemination of CHARM-EU related approaches, methodologies and opportunities, ELTE colleagues involved in CHARM-EU education and professional development will launch a CHARM-EU Roadshow involving visits to all faculties and also engaging EDUflow course designers from the first cohort. All these initiatives are well-aligned with CHARM-EU’s strategic goal to promote its successful innovations and best practices amongst its partner universities.