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The University of Southern Denmark (Syddansk Universitet, SDU) supports blended learning.

It is located in Denmark at 6 campus cities: Odense, Esbjerg, Kolding, Copenhagen, Slagelse, and Sønderborg.

The university has more than 17000 students and 2000 employees.

"The Southern Denmark University enables part time courses, but | colspan="4"| Danish name: Syddansk Universitet. "The Southern Denmark University enables part time courses, but the course language is only in Danish. Example: “The Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies offers and contributes to a series of studies in the graduate programme (daytime) as well as part time programmes at both open university and master's level.”

It references e-learning on its web page About SDU > E-learning it is stated that e-learning is included in all suitable university activities. There are workshops specifically focussed on e-learning, the E-learning support Center specifically for staff, and the SDU E-Learn platform (BlackBoard) as referenced in the SDU BlackBoard manual and Blackboard’s own web site mentioning: “Southern Denmark University Adopts the Blackboard Learning System and Blackboard Content System”.

The students have their own webmail, course administration and blackboard (Source: SSO overview)

The SDU site also links to the Student portal"

The University of Southern Denmark's web site is at http://www.sdu.dk

More details

SDU was formed in 1998 (but dates back to 1966) by the merger between Odense University (founded in 1966), Southern Denmark School of Business and Engineering and South Jutland University Centre.


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