The new "Introduction to Linguistics" is ready for self-enrollment! Throughout the course, students will be required to analyze language data from a variety of different languages using modern tools and technolgies where possible in order to develop a feeling for and proficiency in the proper techniques of linguistic analysis. Just self-enroll to VLC112.
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The Virtual Linguistics Campus (VLC) is the world's largest e-learning platform for linguistics and language studies. The VLC offers linguistic courses and course material for theoretical and applied linguistics as well as educational technology. Furthermore, it includes a variety of linguistic tools and all the communicative facilities necessary for successful e-learning.
Over the years, the VLC content has been authored by more than 75 regular and associated members, assistant professors, research and student assistants plus external contributors from all over the world, among them David Crystal und William Labov. The
main responsibility, however, lies in the hands of the VLC project manager, linguist and web-technologist Jürgen Handke and his Linguistic Engineering Team.
November 2024 Update
The VLC now hosts more than 11,400 registered users from 167 countries. The map displays the number of those users per country who have listed their country in their user profiles (dark blue = top, gray = 0). The current top 5 nations are: Germany, The Philippines, USA, India, and Pakistan; ca. 600 users have not entered their country, yet.
All courses now have full Open AI Help support, with AE_MC44 - The History of the Engish Language, our first AI-Enhanced course. Here is an overview of the current VLC course formats. Try them out. Simply self-enroll!
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VLC100 - Tools & Data
VLC100 - Language Index
VLC100 - Linguistic Aptitude Assessment
VLC100 - Self-Assessment (MA)
VLC101 - Linguistic Fundamentals
VLC102 - Speech Science
VLC103 - The Nature of Meaning
VLC104 - Words and Word Structure
VLC105 - Phonetics, Phonology and Transcription
VLC106 - Syntax: Part I
VLC107 - Syntax: Part II
VLC108 - Language Typology
VLC109 - Phonetics and Phonology
VLC111 - Linguistics, An Overview
VLC112 - A Technology-Supported Introduction to Linguistics
VLC115 - Phonetics, Phonology and Transcription (SPA)
VLC125 - Phonetics, Phonology and Transcription (DEU)
VLC135 - Phonetics, Phonology and Transcription (ARA)
VLC145 - Phonetics, Phonology & Transcription (JAP)
VLC201 - The Structure of English
VLC202 - Historical Linguistics
VLC203 - The History of English
VLC204 - Linguistic Repetition for Students of English
VLC205 - Varieties of English
VLC206 - PDE Morphology and Syntax
VLC300 - Applied Linguistics
VLC301 - Psycholinguistics
VLC302 - Corpus Linguistics Basics
VLC303 - Corpus Linguistics: Linguistic Applications
VLC304 - Corpus Linguistics: EFL Applications
VLC401 - Linguistic Fieldwork Welsh
VLC402 - Linguistic Fieldwork Japanese
VLC403 - Linguistic Fieldwork Arabic
VLC404 - Linguistic Fieldwork Jamaican Creole
BA01 - Phonetics, Phonology & Transcription
AECC01 - MSc Speech and Language Therapy
EL100 - Introduction to Linguistics
EL102 - The Structure of English
ELS212 - English Syntax
ELS111 - The History of the English Language
UDG01 - Phonetics and Phonology: The Vowels of English
UDG02 - Phonetics and Phonology: Consonants
Basic Phonetics and Phonology @ University of Stuttgart
VLC_MC01 - Articulatory Phonetics
VLC_MC02 - Acoustic Phonetics
VLC_MC03 - Consonants
VLC_MC04 - Vowels
VLC_MC06 - Segmental Phonology
VLC_MC07 - PDE Phonology
VLC_MC08 - Phonological Theories
VLC_MC09 - The Transcription of RP
VLC_MC11 - Morphology Basics
VLC_MC12 - Word-Formation
VLC_MC15 - Basic Concepts of Grammar
VLC_MC16 - The Verb in PDE
VLC_MC18 - Constituent Analysis
VLC_MC21 - Word Semantics
VLC_MC22 - Sentence Semantics
VLC_MC23 - Pragmatics
VLC_MC41 - Old English
VLC_MC42 - Middle English
VLC_MC43 - Early Modern English
VLC_MC51 - Language Typology
VLC_MC53 - Contrastive Phonology: RP - German
VLC_MC54 - Contrastive Phonology: RP Spanish
VLC_MC55 - Contrastive Phonology: RP - Arabic
VLC_MC61 - Language and the Mind
VLC_MC62 - Language in Use
VLC_MC63 - Corpus Linguistics Basics
VLC_MC64 - Using Corpora and AI
VLC_MC92 - AI Language Assistance in Higher Education
VLC_MC93 - Using Generative AI
AE501 - British Drama through the Ages
AE502 - British Children’s Literature
AE_MC44 - The History of English
DS502 - British Children's Literature
EDU21 - 21st Century Education
ELS314 - Computer-Mediated Communication
EDU21_MS_DHV - Digital Makerspace
ROB101 - RoboTeach
ROB102 - RoboEdu (Deutsch)
ROB201 - RoboBase V6 (Mittelstufe)
ROB202 - RoboBase V6 (Oberstufe)
ROB501 - RoboBase Lite
Louisenlund Astronomy
ENG05 Mastery
GSE Workshop Astronomy
Exploring the Solar System
VLC000 - Test und Rest Module
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Apologies
From 26 to 29 May 2023, the VLC web server was temporarily unavailable due to maintenance work. We apologise to our community for any problems this may have caused. As of now, the VLC is available again.
Chat GPT
Currently, the VLC is integrating chat GPT recommendations into its courses. Successively, all guiding questions of the "How to Proceed" sections of all courses will be coupled with a recommendation value (RV) on a scale from 0 = not recommended to 10 = highly recommended. Furthermore, an overall recommendation value for the whole topic, again ranging from 0 to 10 is shown. This means, the higher the RV, the more does the VLC Team recommend to forward the guiding question to chat GPT as a means of additional content support.
Since the VLC has more than 30 courses plus 25 Micro Credentials, the implementation of this new feature will take some time. In the meantime, we apologize for any inconveniencies.
Prof. Dr. J. Handke
VLC Project Manager
Micro-Credentials
Latest News: The VLC Micro-Credential Courses (30 hours workload) with four learning units each are now available: for free, fully certified and without any fees.
ASTRO 01 - Course in Astronomy now available
ASTRO 01 provides an overview of the solar system using open educational resources and the insights of two German hobby astronomers and experts of online teaching and learning. The course not only visits the celestial bodies of the solar system and discusses their general properties but also presents the necessary information for their observation and exploration using modern astronomical technology.
If ASTRO 01 is accepted well by the community, we will generate more astronomical courses and put them on a VLC sister platform.