Office for Education Development

The mission of the Office for Education Development is to establish and shape a university culture of education where every student can effectively learn in accordance with their abilities and goals. We aim to emphasize inventive and student-centered teaching methods and prioritize excellence in both learning and teaching for all participants involved in the educational process. Our team specializes in pedagogy, educational development, educational technology, and educational research. Our tasks include building a community of instructors, developing their professional skills, providing professional support for curriculum development, as well as supporting and coordinating educational design and development processes.

Educational methodology innovations

Supporting Educational Innovations: Supporting the implementation of development ideas from departments and instructors through calls for proposals and methodological development.
Development of e-learning and microlearning materials for students: Our responsibilities include the comprehensive conversion of university courses into e-learning formats in both Hungarian and English, as well as the design, coordination, and implementation of microlearning materials aimed at developing digital and soft skills.
Support for Educational Frameworks: Following the transition to CoSpace5, we regularly hold presentations for instructors on the platform’s methodological possibilities and encourage colleagues to create student-friendly learning environments through professional guidance and calls for proposals. In addition, we support university innovations in the area of effective assessment in numerous ways (e.g., through methodological descriptions related to the Exam Center, make-up exams, and question banks).
Developments Based on Digital Competence Assessment: In the fall of 2023, we launched a longitudinal survey among instructors and students to measure their digital competencies over three consecutive years. The survey has since been expanded to include questions on the use of AI, providing a comprehensive institutional analysis and a holistic picture of our current use of digital tools and artificial intelligence. The results provide feedback to colleagues and students on their digital competencies, while also helping us offer more targeted development opportunities, workshops, and support.
Digital Education Support: We have developed the simplest and quickest solutions for the emerging challenges faced by instructors. We offer over 40 detailed, user-friendly guides for our instructors, which are continuously updated. We have university subscriptions to multiple educational support software that can be used in curriculum development or directly in teaching.

Increasing methodological awareness

Organizing Workshops for Instructors: Knowledge transfer, skills development, and assessment are all key tasks for instructors. Therefore, when choosing the topics of workshops aimed at their methodological development, our primary focus is on these areas. Our training portfolio comprises group consultations on pedagogical topics, presentation of assessment methods, and questioning techniques presentation techniques, AI tools, digital platforms and possibilities for interactivity both online and offline. At the beginning of each semester, we organize presentations and workshops where we showcase innovative solutions concerning the main teaching tasks of that semester.
Tasks Related to Curriculum Modernisation: We conduct preparatory sessions for instructors on "Learning Outcome-Based Course Design" through departmental workshops and we strive to ensure that they apply this set of criteria when creating materials for students.
Providing Methodological Consultation: Through one-to one consultations with our instructors, we offer methodological counselling tailored to their specific needs. We strive to seize every opportunity to enhance the methodological awareness of our instructors. We support department heads in methodological consultations, where we collectively brainstorm on the harmonization of program and course objectives and address specific questions related to subjects within the department.
Introducing Pedagogical and ICT Innovations: We actively contribute with publications in the field of Higher Education Pedagogy. In addition, at professional conferences (Higher Education Pedagogy Conference, National Educational Science Conference, ELTE Higher Education at a Higher Level Conference, etc.), we frequently share university best practices, innovative ideas and methodological insights.

Building a Community for Instructors and Students

Methodological Mosaic: In our thematic online publication, released twice a semester, we draw colleagues’ attention to events, new developments, and grant opportunities related to teaching methodology, and in our interview series, we showcase our instructors from a methodological perspective.
Monthly Newsletter: We send out a monthly newsletter to keep colleagues informed about news and events related to our office’s activities.
Knowledge-sharing Community Platform: We have created a Knowledge Base on our intranet page, where educational tools, teaching and supplementary materials, together with the explanations of basic pedagogical concepts used at the University are collected and made available to all BUEB instructors. 
Methodological Picnic - Instructor's Day: One day each semester is exclusively dedicated to and for our instructors. This is when they can explore the methodological innovations in higher education through exciting presentations, informal professional discussions, and interactive workshops.
Higher Education Methodological and Educational Informatics Forum: The working group, of which BUEB OKFI is a founding member, brings together the education development offices of Hungarian universities, with its primary goals being the sharing of best practices among universities and the representation of interests in higher education pedagogy.
Edumod.hu: We have created an online methodological platform that supports the professional development of higher education instructors and educational development specialists, as well as the dissemination of innovative pedagogical solutions. The website functions as a shared, structured knowledge base where searchable and easily adaptable method descriptions, teaching materials, templates, assignments, and assessment tools are available. The development aligns with OKFI’s objectives and, in the long term, lays the foundation for a nationwide methodological knowledge center, which is unique in Hungarian higher education.
"Welcome aboard": This initiative aims to support the early stages of the university instructor career so that new instructors can fulfill their university teaching duties confidently, using methodologically proper approaches. We help our colleagues prepare for the tasks involved in teaching, introduce them to current and effective teaching methods, and support them in structuring their courses in accordance with the stages of the learning process.
Mentor Network for Instructor Support: We offer a mentoring program for both new and current full-time and part-time faculty members, providing them with classroom observations, methodological guidance, and consultation opportunities to help them expand their teaching repertoire.
"THANK-A-TEACHER" Program: This program, highly successful among both students and instructors, enables students to convey personal expressions of gratitude to instructors who have positively influenced their university studies, professional or personal development, or served as a source of inspiration. Amid the challenging phase of online education during the Covid pandemic, nearly 400 instructors received a total of 1064 such messages, providing significant encouragement. Based on instructors' feedback, the program has proven to be exceptionally motivating for them. Throughout the nine campaign periods, we have delivered thousands of student thank-you messages directly to the personal mailboxes of our instructors.

Our fellow lecturers can rely upon our assistance in the following areas:

Course design and development
Curriculum development
Consultations concerning educational challenges
Workshops and training sessions
Drawing up individual development plans
Education-related applications related to education,
and much more...

Platforms Available for Our Instructors
E-learning course materials related to academic subjects Under the coordination of our office, the full conversion of 10 high-enrollment introductory courses into e-learning formats was completed in 2020, covering the following topics: Business Statistics, Statistics and Probability, Marketing, Economic Mathematics, Decision-Making with Quantitative Methods, Business Law, Organizational and Human Resource Management, Introduction to the Economics of Commercial Service Enterprises, Corporate Economics, and Fundamentals of Sustainable Tourism. In 2025, e-learning course materials in Hungarian and English were developed for an additional 10 university courses, with the professional content compiled by our BGE instructors. The developments covered the following subjects: Strategic Management, Business Planning, Sustainable and Responsible Management, Business Communication, PR, Intercultural Relations, Research Methodology, Advanced Research Methodology, Business Informatics, and Economics of Tourism. Our instructors can incorporate the completed materials into their courses, recommend them for supplementary study, or build upon them in their course design.
Microlearning modules for students We support our students by developing a wide range of topics related to the development of their digital competencies (from information security to artificial intelligence), and through our soft skills microlearning courses (e.g., Resilience, Decision Making, Effective Collaboration for College Students, Time Management, A Growth Mindset in University Life), we help them succeed not only at university but also in the workplace.
Microlearning modules for instructors We also regularly develop microlearning modules for our instructors to help them enhance their methodological awareness and better address digital challenges (e.g., Science Communication, Data Visualization, Artificial Intelligence in Teaching, Digital Support for Interactive Large-Scale In-Person Classes, Digital Support for Interactive Large-Scale Online Classes, Teaching Methodology Modules, and Reducing Course-Level Dropout Rates—Methodological Ideas and Resources).
Introductory motivational videos for courses In collaboration with BUEB instructors, we supported the creation of introductory, motivational videos in both Hungarian and English for 40 courses. The aim of these videos is to provide a brief, colorful overview of each course at the beginning of the semester, thereby sparking students’ interest.
Workshops for Instructors: The core responsibilities of educators include knowledge transfer, skill development, and assessment; therefore, when designing our professional development offerings to enhance their pedagogical skills, we focus on these areas. Our training portfolio now includes more than 80 different topics, ranging from pedagogical and methodological subjects to courses aimed at developing soft skills. In addition to full-day in-person training sessions and training series, we also offer online and in-person workshops and software demonstrations to provide direct support at the start of each semester.