Free Online Course: Linguistics 201 - The Structure of English
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 17/12/2013

This course, which is among the most successful massive open online courses, is intended to familiarize students with the main structural properties of Present-Day English grammar. It starts with a review of linguistic approaches to grammar and then discusses the central grammatical aspects of PDE sentence structure: syntactic categories and syntactic functions. A unit on PDE orthography concludes the class.

Completion rate in summer 2014: 46% - must be a world record.