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

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 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.

Interested in joining the VLC Project Manager in a webinar on the central principles of asynchronous self-guided learning? Here is the registration URL.

Together with my Colleague and friend Prof. Dr. Ulli Lotzmann we are developing a course solely based on OER material from the web: "Exploring the Solar System". Stay tuned.