Prototype Your Inter-Institutional Interactive Hybrid Classroom with CHARM-EU

CHARM-EU is a European initiative that pushes the boundaries of inter-institutional education as it offers a Master's program on global challenges for sustainability that leads to a shared degree of five European universities. The program is challenge-based and emphasizes collaborations with partners from business and society. 

Because delivering synchronous modules across multiple European universities is a challenge, CHARM-EU has designed and set up interactive hybrid classrooms that can be used both locally and remotely.  These classrooms allow students and teachers from different universities to learn, teach, and collaborate together - in class, virtually, or in a combination. A wide range of educational activities is possible - plenary activities, focused teamwork, meetings with smaller groups, including matching student teams with nonacademic partners for real-world challenges.

In this practical workshop, participants will work in teams to create their own low-fidelity prototype classroom that fosters collaboration with external parties and universities abroad. Along the road, the workshop leaders will share the challenges they encountered and provide insights from two years of development designing the CHARM-EU classrooms.

This session will offer a unique and interactive look behind the scenes of the design of the single most important part of technology used to facilitate all this: The interactive hybrid classroom.

Join and get your hands dirty!

Alex Lodder

Project Manager, Utrecht University (CHARM-EU), Netherlands

I am a project manager in the educational domain at Utrecht University (UU) and in the European Universities Initiative: CHARM-EU. I have a background in Educational Sciences (Msc) and bridge the gap between business and IT in organization, innovation and development of the Virtual Learning Environment.

Ines Müller-Vogt

CHARM-EU Manager, Hochschule Ruhr West, Germany

Ines Müller-Vogt is a graduate civil engineer. At Hochschule Ruhr West she works as Personal Secretary to the President i.a. on projects regarding student participation and the integration of digital collaboration formats in international teaching cooperations. From Oct. 2018 - Oct. 2020 she studied Education Management M.A. at PH Ludwigsburg and wrote her master thesis on "Digital Transformation at Higher Education Institutions". She is part of the the 2nd cohort of the #DigitalChangeMaker.

Minke Brinkmann

Project Coordinator, UTRECHT UNIVERSITY

Minke is an educational consultant and project leader within the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning of Utrecht University. Her projects concern Challenge Based Learning, blended learning tools implementation and the development of Future Learning Spaces.