The Virtual Linguistics Campus (OER)
Welcome to the Virtual Linguistics Campus - your OER platform for linguistics and education.
Teaching Innovation Award for VLC Self-Learning Package
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More than 25 different linguistics and educational courses available: no fees, fully certified. Workload 90 to 120 hours per course.
Also subscribe to our YouTube Channel: "The Virtual Linguistics Campus", which now has more than 125K subscribers.
All VLC courses now represented in the OER Search Index (OERSI).
All VLC elements are licensed as CC BY and are thus Open Educational Resources.
Latest addition: An introductory course in astronomy: ASTRO 01 - Exploring the Solar System
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.
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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 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.
The KorPLUS self-learning package and our latest innovation “VLC305 – Using Corpora for EFL Needs” by Julia Schlüter, Katharina Deckert, and Carina Großmann (University of Bamberg) have won ISLE’s first Teaching Innovation Prize. Aimed at empowering non-native English professionals,
it fosters corpus literacy to address language issues and assess AI tools. Launched in March 2025 as an Open Educational Resource, it will be showcased on the ISLE homepage, at their 2025 conference in Spain, and in their online forum.
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.
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.