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)?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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Sharing Content via WebTorrent

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

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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.

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eLearning Africa 2024

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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LiaScript 0.14 - Full Documentation (English)

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

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LiaScript 0.14 - Partial Documentation (Korean)

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

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LiaScript 0.14 - Partial Documentation (Ukrainian)

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

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LiaScript 0.14 - Teilweise Dokumentation (German)

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

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Freiberg - Research Seminar

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

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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.

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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.

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Liascript User Symposium (Recording)

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

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Offene Bildungsmaterialien auf twillo finden und teilen

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

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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.

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Digital Fellows im Spotlight: OER als Grundlage für und Ergebnis von digital gestützter Lehrpraxis

Das Digital Fellows Programm in Sachsen fördert die Entwicklung und Umsetzung digitaler Lehr- und Lernkonzepte an Hochschulen.

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Where is Content Stored?

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

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Tables & Data Visualizations

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

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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Sharing Content via Tor and OnionShare

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

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6 Quizzes in 100 Seconds

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

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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.

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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…

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Lua Programming

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

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Macros

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

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Embedding Multimedia and More

There are 4 ways in LiaScript to embed multimedia content:

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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…

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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.

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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

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One Document - Multiple Representations

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

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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.

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Fischbestimmer - FISHIDENTIFIER

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Setting up Atom (Deprecated)

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Open Educational Ressources (OER) - Vision, Vorteile und praktische Umsetzung mit LiaScript und OPAL

Gemeinsam mit Studenten Lehrmaterialien erstellen und diese unter einer freien OER Lizenz teilen.

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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.

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LiaScript Tutorial an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg (German)

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

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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.

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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.

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Podcast: OER und ihr Einsatz in der Hochschullehre

Im folgenden Podcast geht es um die Herausforderungen und Chancen der digitalen Lehre im Wintersemester 20/21, das weniger hybrid verläuft als erwartet.

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OE³R the next Generation of OER?

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

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LiaScript Cheet-Sheet (German)

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Freie Lehr-Lern-Materialien ohne Wenn und Aber II (German)

Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die Konzepte werde die neusten Features von LiaScript vorgestellt, dazu zählen automatische Sprachausgaben in verschiedenen Sprachen und automatisch erstellte Visualisierungen von Markdown-Tabellen.

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Freie Lehr-Lern-Materialien ohne Wenn und Aber I (German)

LiaScript erweitert Markdown um Elemente wie interaktive Animationen, Quizze, Text-To-Speech Elemente, out-of-the-box Programmierumgebungen usw.

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Arbeitsbuch PROLOG (German)

Dieses Buch soll in die Programmiersprache PROLOG und in die mit ihr verbundene ‘Logik-programmierung’ einführen.

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C-Programmierung (German)

Dies ist eine interaktive Portierung des freien Wikibuches C-Programmierung nach LiaScript.

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C-Programming

This LiaScript book is based on the free Wikibook on C-Programming.

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Sister Fox and the Gray Wolf

These are two early translations of Russian folk take “sister fox and the gray wolf”.

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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.

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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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LiaScript - BearLearn Talk 2019

This is an early example of a LiaScript presentation, that was given as a BearLearn Talk 2019 in Berlin.

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Umsetzung, Chancen und Herausforderungen von Remote-Laboren (German)

Aufzeichnung der Webinarreihe “Digitalisierung an den Hochschulen Sachsen Anhalt”. Thema: “„Jederzeit und überall im Labor lernen.

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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).

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