André Dietrich

Open Educational Resources: Gekommen, um zu bleiben?

Am 11. November 2024 fand in der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) eine Veranstaltung zum Thema “Open Educational Resources: Gekommen, um zu bleiben?

Why Open Education Needs a Common Language!?

A better question would be: Why do commercial offerings and e-learning platforms dominate online education and “NOT” Open Educational Resources (OER)?

Creating interactive Diagrams with eCharts

LiaScript uses the powerful eCharts library to create interactive diagrams, whether you’re visualizing ASCII art or presenting data from tables.

Teach Your AI to Generate LiaScript Previews

Claude.ai offers a powerful feature in its paid version that allows you to preview generated code directly.

Creating interactive Diagrams with ChatGPT

Exploring AI-generated content opens the door to fascinating possibilities. In this article, we delve into how you can leverage AI models, like ChatGPT, to create interactive diagrams that can be customized on the fly.

Changing Layout - FlexBox is your Friend

In this article, we will show you how to change the layout of certain parts of your LiaScript course easily with FlexBox.

Collaborative drawings made with LiaScript

In this article we will explore how to create a collaborative drawing canvas (in other words a whiteboard) using LiaScript’s internal publish -subscribe mechanisms.

Multimedia Comments in LiaScript - This Changes Everything

How can you add your voice or short video sequences to your LiaScript courses?

Open Textbook Repositories

This alphabetically sorted overview is fare from being complete, but it should give you a good starting point to find open textbooks for your courses.

Sharing Content via WebTorrent

This demo from the eLearning-Africa Conference 2024, shows how to use WebTorrent to share educational content with LiaScript.

What Do Poland and Arnold Schwarzenegger Have in Common?

… for translating open textbooks into interactive LiaScript books. But, based on our discussions at the eLearning Africa Conference we realized that there is a need for open textbooks for various purposes.

eLearning Africa 2024

In June 2024, the eLearning Africa Conference took place in Kigali, Rwanda.

Open Source Community Projects on GitHub versus Traditional Publishing Models for OER

In this post, I will aim to make a case for Git and GitHub by comparing how “traditional” publishing models (for OER) can be improved through dynamic, flexible, and transparent open-source community projects.

LiaScript - WorldMap

This idea was motivated by the OER-World Map in order to to visualize the distribution of educational content that was created with LiaScript or events and meetings.

Offene Bildungsmaterialien an Hochschulen verankern

Die Förderung von Open Educational Resources (OER) an Hochschulen gewinnt durch die Entwicklung und Implementierung spezifischer OER-Policies an Struktur und Sichtbarkeit.

Data and Analytics for Research Training (DART)

The DART program offers free, open-source educational resources aimed at empowering working biomedical researchers with data science skills to enhance their work.

Podcast: Data Management Training at the University of Vienna

This podcast delves into the University of Vienna’s innovative data management training program, developed by a diverse team of data stewards for a wide audience including PhD students and technical staff.

LiaScript 0.14 - Full Documentation (English)

This is a screencast of the LiaScript documentation in presentation mode spoken by LiaScript itself ;-)

LiaScript 0.14 - Partial Documentation (Korean)

This is an automated translation of the LiaScript LiaScript into the Korean language.

LiaScript 0.14 - Partial Documentation (Ukrainian)

This is an automated translation of the LiaScript LiaScript into the Ukrainian language.

LiaScript 0.14 - Teilweise Dokumentation (German)

Dies ist die Aufnahme von LiaScript im Präsentationsmodus, indem die Dokumentation sich selber vorstellt.

Freiberg - Research Seminar

In this talk André Dietrich gives a brief overview on the research history around LiaScript and RemoteLabs.

JavaScript and Image-Filtering

The following short example shows how script tags can be applyed to images in order to create a simple image-filtering effect.

Importing a local WebCam-stream into a Presentation

Sometimes you want to show a live video stream from a local WebCam in your presentation, without having to move to another application.

Liascript User Symposium (Recording)

Discover WHO is utilizing and creating free, open online courses using the user-friendly LiaScript Markdown and WHY.

Offene Bildungsmaterialien auf twillo finden und teilen

Twillo ist ein Portal, das sich auf offene Bildungsmaterialien (OER) spezialisiert hat, insbesondere im Bereich der Hochschullehre.

Serverless Online Education

The presentation at the Open Educa Berlin (OEB) Conference on November 24th 2023 focused on “Serverless Online Education” and emphasized the potential of decentralized, browser-based technologies in educational settings.

Konzepte und Erfahrungen bei der Realisierung dezentraler, offener Lehrmaterialien mit LiaScript (German)

Dies ist ein Mitschnitt des Workshops, der auf auf der DELFI-Tagung 2023 in Aachen gegeben wurde.

Where is Content Stored?

Did you know that LiaScript tries to be agnostic as possible, when it comes to hosting?

Tables & Data Visualizations

If Markdown tables are used to store data, why not directly visualizing it?

eLearning Africa 2023

Instant Creation & Publishing of Free and Open Online Courses with LiaScript LiaScript is a language-based approach to free and open education.

Invitation to eLearning Africa 23

We will have a full-day workshop at the eLearning Africa conference in Dakar on creating free and open interactive courses with LiaScript Markdown …

How can Web 3.0 save Education?

The University Future Festival 2023 was an event hosted by the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung and the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre.

Sharing Content via Tor and OnionShare

Why should something like Tor or the Dark-Net be relevant in education at all?

6 Quizzes in 100 Seconds

This is our report on making quizzes in LiaScript in 100 seconds.

A Custom Extension for Algebra

Today we show how to build a custom extension for executable code-snippets for LiaScript #Markdown by using the computer algebra systems Algebrite.

Executable Code

How to make your Markdown code-snippets editable and executable? Our solution, just attach a script-tag to it that defines how the input or inputs should be evaluated…

Lua Programming

This example is a port of the Lua programming course from the open wikibook Lua-Programming to LiaScript.

Macros

How can you define custom macros or even define reusable LiaScript libraries?

Embedding Multimedia and More

There are 4 ways in LiaScript to embed multimedia content:

ASCII-aRT

After writing systems, here is a quick intro into ASCII-aRT - the next evolutionary step of writing - and how it is integrated into LiaScript, such that you can integrate for example also formulas and animations to your image…

Fonts: Dead or Alive

Fascinated by the length of the URL as well as by foreign languages and writing systems we added the opportunity to use different fonts in LiaScript-Markdown.

Images are handled differently

LiaScript-Markdown handles images differently: a paragraph with a starting image will produce a floating environment a paragraph with only images will produce a gallery the image will be optimally sized & placed “titles” will be used as captions You can use this this example as a basis for your own course by following this link

One Document - Multiple Representations

This is part one of a demo series that explains certain LiaScript design elements.

Praxisworkshop Erstellung eines E-Learning Kurses mit LiaScript

Häufig sind wir so in unsere Arbeitsweisen vertieft, dass wir die Vorteile anderer Perspektiven und Herangehensweisen übersehen.

We Are Developers 22 - Interactive Markdown for Education & Documentation

Well… there is a so called OER movement - OER stands for OpenEducationalResources.

Fischbestimmer - FISHIDENTIFIER

This is an experiment of porting the FISHIDENTIFIER from the Deutsches Meeresmuseeum Stralsund to LiaScript.

Online-Lehre offen gestalten - Einführung in die Software LiaScript (Open Science Festival 2022)

Unter dem folgenden Link findet ihr die Materialien des Workshops “Online-Lehre offen gestalten - Einführung in die Software Liascript” von twillo.

How To Code in Python 3

This is a port of DigitalOcean’s How To Code in Python 3 tutorial series by Lisa Tagliaferri translated to LiaScript with interactive PyScript examples.

Promoting your Content

If you want to “promote” the LiaScript content you have created, or share it with a wider audience, then you can use the following methods.

Setting up Atom (Deprecated)

This post will help you to set up your Atom with the appropriate plugins to speed up your development process.

Import A-Frame 3D models, scenes, and more into LiaScript open-courSes

This blog entry presents an example of how to import A-Frame 3D models, scenes, and more into LiaScript open-courSes.

Install Atom with LiaScript (Deprecated)

This blog entry presents a little workaround and shows how you can still use our two plugins to develop your LiaScript courses offline with the Atom editor.

Install Visual Studio Code with LiaScript

Due to some problems with package updates for Atom editor, we decided to created two LiaScript extensions for VSCode.

LiaScript Tutorial an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg (German)

In diesem Tutorial werden die neusten Features und das “neue” Design von LiaScript vorgestellt.

How to activate Tooltips in LiaScript

LiaScript has a new tooltip feature, which was inspired by the Wikipedia tooltips, which provide more information about a certain topic if you hover a link with the mouse.

Embedding Multimedia - How does it work??

LiaScript has a new type of link. If you prefix a link in Markdown with an exclamation mark, then this link is marked as an image, and it gets embedded into the document.

OE³R the next Generation of OER?

OER or in long Open Educational Resources is a “relatively” new and vaguely defined term.

LiaScript Cheet-Sheet (German)

Ein Spickzettel der wichtgsten LiaScript-Funktionalität. Weitere sind in Vorbereitung …

Markdown just got a new preview tag

LiaScript has a new link type/tag that allows you to add preview cards to your LiaScript course or even to your personal website.

LiaScript: Crash-courSe in 13 Akten (German)

Dieses Tutorial führt in 13 „kurzen“ Schritt-für-Schritt Videos in die Kursentwicklung mit LiaScript ein, von der Installation des Editors hin zu den wichtigsten Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten.

From Hero to Zero with Learning Management Systems

Why and How LMSs fail in distributing knowledge Abstract: Learning Management Systems provide more restrictions than access to educational resources and developing courses with the offered authoring tools is more tedious and intimidating task than a creative one.