New free course on machine translation technologies for the OpenEU community

How can machine translation technologies support multilingual learning environments? OpenEU members now have a new opportunity to explore these tools and their practical applications with MTUOC: A Practical Course on Machine Translation Technologies, a free, open-access, self-paced online course by Antoni Oliver (UOC) and Sergi Álvarez (UAB). 

Machine translation is now part of many professional translation, localisation, and multilingual communication workflows. However, many open-source machine translation and large language model tools require technical knowledge that may be unfamiliar to translators, language professionals, and students in the humanities. This course addresses that gap by offering a practical, guided, and accessible introduction to language technologies.

The course is created for translation students, researchers, translators, language professionals, and anyone interested in mastering practical machine translation workflows through the MTUOC ecosystem. It combines theoretical concepts with practical tutorials, allowing participants to develop hands-on technical skills. No prior programming experience is required. 

What will you learn?

• Deploy, integrate and evaluate machine translation systems.

• Build, clean and preprocess parallel and monolingual corpora.

• Understand neural machine translation (NMT) and fine-tune models on domain-specific data.

• Apply large language models (LLMs) to translation, adaptation and evaluation.

The first module starts on 2 November 2026!

• The course is structured into four self-paced modules, with start dates between November 2026 and June 2027.

• Each module includes learning materials, practical tutorials, activities and non-graded self-assessment quizzes.

• Participants can also join a dedicated Discord community to discuss topics with peers, ask questions and interact directly with the instructors.

Interested in taking part?

The course is free and open access, so you can explore the materials and learn at your own pace.

Access the course
https://mtuoc-course.github.io/MTUOC-course/how-to-navigate/

Join the Discord community
https://discord.gg/wGUNTg7sz