The Virtual Linguistics and Literature Campus

Dear VLC Community,

First and foremost, thank you for your continued trust and commitment over the years. Your loyalty and engagement have played a crucial role in making the Virtual Linguistics Campus the vibrant and valuable platform it is today.

We are excited to share some important developments with you. The VLC is evolving!

In addition to our more than 70 linguistic courses, the platform now includes new content from the field of literary studies. The first courses in this area have already launched with great success, and more are currently under construction. With this expansion, we are opening up new intellectual horizons and inviting a broader academic audience to engage with the VLC.

As a result of these changes, we believe it is time to rethink the name of the VLC. To reflect the growing diversity of our offerings, we are considering this updated name: The Virtual Linguistics and Literature Campus, short VL²C, – and we would love your input opinion!

The new name also necessitates a new logo and a new homepage banner, both to help communicate this new direction. 

The Logo:

The Homepage banner (miniaturized): These visuals are meant to highlight the key innovations now shaping our platform.

We invite you to:

• Take a look at our proposed name ideas
• Let us know what you think of the updated logo and banner
• and maybe to Share your own ideas for a new name

The VLC has always been shaped by its community – and now more than ever, your voice matters. Help us define the next chapter.

Warm regards,

Your VLC or VL2C Team

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

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.