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.

Here are all linguistic courses on the VLC (workload in hours) in brackets :

Introductory Level

• VLC101 - Linguistic Fundamentals (120)
• VLC102 - Speech Science (90)

Basic Level

• VLC103 - The Nature of Meaning (90)
• VLC104 - Words and Word Structure (90)
• VLC105 - Phonetics, Phonology & Transcription (90)
• VLC106 - Syntax - Part I (120)
• VLC107 - Syntax - Part II (120)
• VLC108 - Language Typology (120)

Advanced or Specialization

• VLC109 - Phonetics and Phonology (120)
• VLC201 - The Structure of English (90)
• VLC202 - Historical Linguistics (90)
• VLC203 - The History of English (90)
• VLC204 - Linguistic Repetition for Students of English (120)
• VLC205 - Varieties of English (120)
• VLC206 - PDE Morphology & Syntax (120) 

Specialization

• VLC300 - Applied Linguistics (120)
• VLC301 - Psycholinguistics (120)
• VLC401 - Linguistic Fieldwork - Welsh (100)
• VLC402 - Linguistic Fieldwork - Japanese (100)
• VLC403 - Linguistic Fieldwork - Arabic (100)
• VLC404 - Linguistic Fieldwork - Jamaican Creole (100)

In addition, all users have free access to the tools and glossaries (VLC100 - Tools and Data) and the Language Index (VLC100 - Language Index) with more than 500 languages and more than 300 varieties of the major languages - all with sound support.

And our special offer: If you want to use a course/repository as a teacher, a customized "clone", is created from the basic course which can then freely be used (also modified) by the institution.

We cordially invite you to become a member of the VLC-Community. Just register (for free) and self-enrol to as many courses as you like.

Prof. Dr. J. Handke (VLC-Project Manager)

VLC109 - Phonetics and Phonology is now available!