Centre for Online and Blended Learning

Cases and Studies

Sparking reflections on generative AI beyond the classroom

What were the didactical considerations? As part of a recent revision of the course “Medical Cell and Tissue Biology”, course leader Katerina Tritsaris introduced a new module on innovation in biomedical research for…

Sustainability in Education at SUND

How can we work concretely with sustainability in our study programmes – across disciplines, study boards, and teaching formats? And how do we develop a shared language and framework that is both academically meaningful…

Shaping the future of health professions education in a digital world

How do you strengthen health professions education across countries, disciplines and digital traditions? At the PEP Symposium in Copenhagen, partners from Denmark, India and Kenya met to share experiences, challenge…

Summer School 2026

Help shape COBL’s Summer School: What should we be curious about in 2026?

The summer school takes place over four half days in week 34, from 9:00 to 13:00, including lunch, and is designed as a focused learning space with room for both in-depth work and dialogue. The ambition is not simply to…

Welcome to Herbert and Victor in COBL

COBL has welcomed two new student assistants who already play important roles in our work at SUND. Herbert has joined COBL with responsibility for live streaming. This means that he has taken over the overall task of…

Collegial space

Making teaching development easier – together

Working with teaching development in a collegial space makes implementation easier and more sustainable — simply because you are not alone in turning your ideas into practice. This is exactly where collegial sparring…

video production

Early Introduction to Psychiatry

The field of Psychiatry is facing two challenges: a growing number of patients and fewer doctors to assist them. Pernille Gundtoft Uhrenholt is determined to change this.

A new declaration makes it easier to manage generative AI in exams

How should students declare their use of generative AI in exams? Now we have a concrete tool.

FREE ONLINE COURSE

Tackling cardiometabolic diseases – insights from India

A new online course, created in collaboration between the University of Copenhagen and the Christian Medical College Vellore in India, explores how to tackle the alarming situation with the rapidly increasing number of…

video production

From dissections to bananas: how a teacher team mastered video production!

The didactical challenge Time constraints are a recurring issue in the first-year course Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology. In the current setup, teachers demonstrate dissections to a lecture hall of 180 students,…

The Body’s Bodyguards - an illustrative narrative about the immune system

A new podcast-series uses analogies, humor and sound effects as reminders before the students go to class.

Three tips for welcoming your students in your Absalon course room

TIP #1: Welcoming page with course information To provide students with a comprehensive course experience, consider structuring your Absalon course room to cater to their needs. Include a welcoming page that equips…

digital media case

A story about cows, Nobel prizes, zombies, and Henrik Dam’s bleeding chicken.

A story about cows, Nobel prizes, zombies, and Henrik Dam’s bleeding chicken. How do you make a notoriously difficult, and admittedly a bit dry, biochemical topic such as hemostasis more interesting for the students?

New Learning design model developed with Indian medical college

Taking course design to the next level, a 1.5-day ABC Learning Workshop by COBL & AIIMS Delhi gives educators ample time and tools to transform traditional teaching methods.

SUND vision and recommendations for teaching post COVID-19

Inspiration for variation of teaching activities and course development to more blended formats

Efficient student feedback for busy lecturers

By Associate Professor Helle Lottrup Halkjær Rhode, Department of Veterinary and Animal Science and Centre for Online and Blended Learning. For sparring, contact Helle Lottrup Halkjær Rhode or Centre for Online and…

ONLINE LEARNING

Inspiration for creating a good learning environment in online seminars

The social dimension of learning in the online classroom setting Take this! “Face-to-face education isn’t successful because lecturing is good. Lectures are one instructional aspect of an overall ecosystem specifically…

Inspiration til det gode læringsmiljø på online seminarer

Den sociale dimension af læring i online-klasselokalet Hør her! “Face-to-face education isn’t successful because lecturing is good. Lectures are one instructional aspect of an overall ecosystem specifically designed to…

HyFlex: Studerende føler sig involverede på kurset ”Humanbiologi”

Professor Nicole Schmitt har ændret ni forelæsninger til formatet HyFlex, der blander online og fysisk undervisning. De studerende føler sig, Ifølge survey, meget involverede i undervisningen men ville stadig foretrække…

Hvad savnede de studerende mest mens campus var lukket?

Under nedlukningen af campus i foråret gennemførte COBL – i samarbejde med forskere fra IFSV - et survey projekt, hvis mål er at afdække de studerendes oplevelser og udfordringer med fjernundervisningen. En af de ting…

Skru ned for støjen fra sociale medier og op for din egen digitale ”backchannel”

Forskning har vist, at undervisningsrettede digitale ”backchannels” hjælper studerende til at fokusere på emnet og til at deltage mere aktivt under forelæsninger. Professor MSO, Biomedicinsk Institut, Nicole Schmitt er…

Samarbejde om digitalt undervisningsmateriale sikrer ensartethed og løfter kvalitet

Da fagsøjlen for infektionsmedicin besluttede at samarbejde om fælles undervisningsmateriale var det for at ensarte undervisning og løfte kvalitet, fortæller ordførende professor Jens Lundgren.

SUND undervisere sparer tid og løfter kvalitet med video-eksperthjælp ved hånden

Professor Bente Gammelgaard var en af de første til at bruge COBL’s tilbud om brug af video-redigeringssuite med sidemandsoplæring fra videoproducer. Det var en stor hjælp, fortæller hun.

”Hvordan kommer du videre ind i bughulen?”

Interaktive videoer med indbyggede spørgsmål og opgaver får studerende til at tænke og handle selvstændigt fremfor på baggrund af udenadslære.

ABC læringsdesign giver overblik og inspirerer til aktiverende undervisning

Ifølge studieleder Peter Holm fra veterinærstudiet og kursusansvarlig Camilla Foged fra Institut for Farmaci er ny ABC-metode yderst effektiv både til studie- og kursusplanlægning. Metoden er visuel, hands-on, tager kun…

Når engagement og overblik lyser ud af Absalon

Kursus i medicinsk celle- og vævsbiologi er et stort kursus med omkring 50 undervisere og over 300 studerende fra uddannelserne i medicin og molekylær biomedicin

Udvikl dit kursus med effektiv story-board metode

Cirka 20 undervisere fra Medicin-, Farma- og Veterinær-uddannelsen, har engageret sig i at udvikle og eller redesigne kurser med afsæt i en 90-120 minutter såkaldt ABC-workshop, som COBL har adapteret fra University…

Digitale undervisningsmaterialer løser udfordringer på valgfag

Slide med speak fra præsentationen: Organisk Delirium På kursusportalen beskrives valgfagets undervisningsform som: ”Ophold på hospitalsafdeling (diagnostisk eller klinisk) og vejledningstimer med klinisk…