DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE LEARNING MATERIALS The Korean online resources have been completed and are now available as open courseware on LConline. Swahili learning resources are under construction. A CULP staff training site was set up on Moodle to help teachers transition smoothly for online synchronous teaching. Multimedia resources were developed for the Language Centre’s participation in the University’s virtual open day. Funding for the augmented reality British Sign Language learning objects has been secured from the Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund, and work is due to begin in Michaelmas term 2020. The project to develop a support platform for the acquisition of academic reading and writing skills in collaboration with colleagues from Tsinghua and Zhengzhou University is continuing well. It will attempt to integrate existing e-learning approaches with a range of NLP technologies, and an alpha release of the project may be ready for early next year. During 2019-20 over 24 million requests were made to, and 537.3 GB of learning resources were downloaded from, our server. The highest demand was for the German Essentials module, followed by Chinese Basic 1 and German Basic Grammar.
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