🌐 Digital Humanities: Free IT training for humanities scholars from the University of Helsinki!

We have some fantastic news for anyone keen to explore digital humanities and applied linguistics!

The University of Helsinki-led project “Digital Humanities: Ensuring Ukrainian University Teaching in Times of Crisis” is launching free online courses. 🚀

This is a unique opportunity to gain new knowledge or improve your skills in prompt engineering, language models and quantitative linguistics.

💻🎓 What courses are available?

There are currently 8 relevant courses:

🧑‍💻Large Language Models for Linguists: N. Chelytko 

🧑‍💻Generative Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering: O. Kanishcheva 

🧑‍💻History of the Ukrainian language: digital aspects: N. Bahniuk, Ye. Redko 

🧑‍💻Corpus Linguistics: M. Shvedova 

🧑‍💻Python from scratch for philologists: N. Babkova, N. Khaïrova 

🧑‍💻Practical Course in Corpus Lexicography: O. Taran 

🧑‍💻Practical course in Ukrainian dialectology: L. Dyka

🧑‍💻Fundamentals of Quantitative Linguistics: Approaches, Tools, Case Studies: S. Buk, H. Pron

📍Where?
The courses are freely available on the Moodle platform. Each course is logically structured into thematic blocks, comprising lectures, presentations and assessment tasks.

🔐🔑 How to access?
You can enrol on your chosen course by first registering on the platform (https://virtueller-campus-thueringen.de/login/signup.php). Once you have created an account, follow the link to your chosen course (select from the list above), log in to your personal account if necessary, click the “Enrol me” button, and familiarise yourself with the course structure, academic integrity policy and how the course works.

⏳ Duration: No time limits! Work at a pace that suits you.

📚 Number: Choose as many courses as you like, depending on your own resources.

🏆 Certificate: Upon completion, you will be able to download a certificate showing hours and credits (it will also be sent to your email).

📧 Contact the team: digihum.ua@gmail.com

Join the community of digital philologists today! 🎓💎

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