SWISSLING is a modular introductory courseware in linguistics developed by a network of five Swiss linguistics departments - Lugano (USI), Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, Zürich - and funded by the Swiss Virtual Campus.
The SWISSLING consortium, during the SVC impulse phase, produced 12 courseware modules covering all the main subfields of the discipline that can be combined to form introductory courses in linguistics adapted to various teaching needs and usable both within blended learning scenarios and in complete distance learning contexts. During the academic years 2001-2004, more than 500 students each year used SWISSLING, with an average reduction of ex cathedra lectures near 50 percent.
Maria Schubauer-Leoni et Jean-François Perret carried out an extensive pedagogical evaluation. The modules were systematically tested within various extended blended learning scenarios in the framework of the introductory linguistics courses and seminars taught in the partner universities.