LiaScript

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?

ChatGPT als OER Koautor - ein interaktiver Kurs in 10 Minuten (German)

Wie nutzt man ChatGPT um interaktive Kurse für LiaScript zu erstellen, wird in diesem Video gezeigt… Manchmal muss man bei den Kursen noch manuell nacharbeiten aber gefühlt wird ChatGPT immer besser…

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.

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.

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.

Offene Bildungsmaterialien auf twillo finden und teilen

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

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.

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.

Students work on open learning content

This is a translated version of a German article that was published on april 22 in 2022 here: https://tu-freiberg.

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 …

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.

LiaScript: a domain-specific-language for interactive online courses

This is the first paper published about LiaScript, which was presented at the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on e-Learning 2019 in Porto.

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