The Virtual Linguistics and Literature Campus

Dear VL2C users,

As you may have heard from the news, there has been a security issue with the PHP programming language. Millions of websites were affected, including the VL2C, which had to be temporarily taken offline as a result. The problem has now (after two days) been resolved. However, as a result, the VL2C is now running as a Moodle 4.5 instance, which has led to some changes in design and functionality.

We are doing our best to resolve any issues that may arise, but we ask for your patience, as some aspects are new to us developers, too.

Prof. Dr Jürgen Handke
VL2C Project Manager
Aachen/Marburg
Germany

Dear VL2C Community Members,

We are pleased to present the new VL2C song. It is AI-generated and has been supplemented with blues harp and flute by VL2C Project Manager Jürgen Handke:

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.

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.

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