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eLearning Africa 2024

In June 2024, the eLearning Africa Conference took place in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference brought together experts, practitioners, and policymakers from across Africa and beyond to discuss the latest trends and innovations in technology-enhanced learning. First of all, a big thank you to all participants for the interesting insights and discussions… We had the opportunity to conduct a full-day workshop on “Creating Sustainable and Extendable Open Educational Resources (OER) as Interactive Online Classrooms”.

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. See the agenda here. The recorded video tutorial elaborated on using LiaScript for creating interactive online courses, covering basics of markdown, progressive web apps, offline access, distributed education methods, classroom creation, and hardware sharing in the browser. You can repeat all the steps by your own by using the following URL as a bootstrap:

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. https://delfi-tagung.de/delfi-2023/workshops-tutorials LiaScript implementiert als Markdown-basierte Beschreibungssprache für Lehrinhalte die zentralen Konzepte von Open Educational Ressources. Basierend auf einer textuellen Darstellung, ohne zentrale Infrastruktur, können Lehrmaterialien ähnlich Open-Source-Softwareprojekten in einer Community entwickelt, geteilt und geprüft werden. Das Tutorial gibt einen Überblick über den Stand des Projektes und führt die Teilnehmer:innen in die Basiskonzepte und Nutzungsmuster ein.

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. This workshop will demonstrate how LiaScript can be used to create sustainable and extendable open educational resources (OER) that are interactive, engaging, and even work offline. In contrast to complex user-interfaces and memorising lots of point and click events, participants will work with simple text-files only. LiaScript is based on Markdown, which is founded on ideas around simplicity, adaptability and extendibility.

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 … No platform no, no login, just OER and publish immediately (works offline too) https://www.elearning-africa.com/conference2024/programme_workshops_detail.php?ws=FD2 Here is a follow up in french … If you already want to try this out, checkout the online editor:

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. The event was held both in-person and online from April 26 to April 28, 2023. The festival was designed to be “Digital first”, meaning all aspects of the festival could be experienced online, with physical stages in various locations in Germany offering additional networking opportunities festival.hfd.digital. The festival addressed a broad spectrum of topics related to the opportunities and challenges of digital transformation.

We Are Developers 22 - Interactive Markdown for Education & Documentation

Well… there is a so called OER movement - OER stands for OpenEducationalResources. In contrast to the OpenSource initiative, there is no such thing as a common or uniting (programming) language, where people can contribute pieces to a larger project. It might sound strange, but we think that Markdown can be an ideal language candidate for e-learning. But it is mainly used to create static content, the syntax is fixed and not extendable.

Open-Course Development with LiaScript (... Or Markdown on Steroids)

Markdown is an ideal tool for documenting and thus a suitable format for Open Educational Resources, but as a static markup language it is also boring. So the idea was born to create a DSL that is based on Markdown but intended to be used for developing online courses, that look like screen-cast with various interactive elements. Starting this project with Elm, it was more or less an explorative journey, with rapid changes in the DSL and the interpreter that were guided by the Elm-compiler.

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. It gives an overview of the language and its features, as well as the motivation behind its development. Abstract. LiaScript is an attempt to enable everyone to create free and interactive online courses, without the need of being an experienced programmer. Instead, it aims to bring both parties, software-and course-developers, closer together by introducing Open-Source techniques into the Open-courSe development process.

The Vision of LiaScript

This poster represents one of the earliest publications on LiaScript, showcasing our pioneering ideas on leveraging open-source methodologies to develop Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Over the years, LiaScript has undergone significant evolution, yet the foundational principles, key concepts, and the syntax have steadfastly remained unchanged. We made a minor but crucial modification in our approach to embedding videos; we shifted from using the !! link syntax to !?. This change was implemented to avoid confusion with other markdown interpreters and platforms like GitHub, ensuring our examples remain accessible and functional.