The Virtual Linguistics Campus (OER)
Welcome to the Virtual Linguistics Campus - your OER platform for linguistics and education.
More than 25 different linguistics and educational courses available: no fees, fully certified. Workload 90 to 120 hours per course.
All VLC courses now represented in the OER Search Index (OERSI).
User of the month: Ross Madenwald for outstanding quality assurance of course content.
All VLC elements are licensed as CC BY and are thus Open Educational Resources.
A special gift: 4 Linguistic Fieldwork courses: Arabic, Jamaican Creole, Japanese, Welsh.
The Language Index now hosts more than 500 languages, the majority of them with full audio support.
The glossaries contain more than 2,500 terms, analyses and tools for linguistics.
All data (linguistic glossaries, VIP data base, morphological and syntactic trees) up for grabs.
Also subscribe to our YouTube Channel: "The Virtual Linguistics Campus", which now has more than 100K subscribers.
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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 fully certified 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.
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October 2022 UpdateCurrently the VLC hosts 7,300 registered users from more than 160 countries. The pins on the globe to the left display the origins of all those users who have listed their city/country in their user profiles. Earlier this year, the VLC YouTube-Channel was awarded the Silver YouTube Creator Award. Since July 2022, all VLC courses can be found in the OER Search Index.
Curently, several new languages are under construction. When ready, the contributors will be mentioned here. |
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
Basic Level
Advanced or Specialization
Specialization
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)
Now ready for self-enrolment. A central
Now available for self-enrolment: VLC205 - Varieties of English
