LiaScript

AI-Assisted Course Creation: From Markdown to Interactive Learning in 3 Hours

How do you transform a plain Markdown document into an engaging, interactive learning experience complete with animations, quizzes, AI-generated imagery, and video narration—all within a three-hour workshop?

From PDF to LiaScript Course — Speedrun with AI

This two-part speedrun shows how you can transform static documents into interactive, narrated LiaScript courses quickly using LLMs, image AI, browser TTS and HeyGen presenter videos.

kurzerklärt: Wie stelle ich technische Offenheit von OER sicher und warum empfiehlt sich LiaScript?

Twillo ist ein spannendes Projekt, das sich ganz der offenen Hochschullehre widmet.

AI-Enhanced Live Coding: Building Liascript Courses for TVET 2025

Watch a live coding session where we build interactive online courses using LiaScript, supercharged with AI assistance.

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?

Collaborative drawings made with LiaScript

How to create a collaborative canvas purely with LiaScripts pub-sub feature.

Newsletter 31/07/2024

It’s been a while since our last update, and we’ve been busy attending conferences and gathering inspiring ideas to share with you.

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…

Sharing Content via WebTorrent

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

Newsletter 11/04/2024

… as you might have seen finished 99% of our documentation, so nearly everything, every detail or previously hidden feature is now documented

Newsletter 04/03/2024

… since our last newsletter, a lot has happened. For those who missed it, here is the link to our last User Symposium from December 2023:

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)

이 문서는 LiaScript를 한국어로 번역한 것입니다.

LiaScript 0.14 - Partial Documentation (Ukrainian)

Це автоматичний переклад документації LiaScript на українську мову.

LiaScript 0.14 - Teilweise Dokumentation (German)

Dies ist die Aufnahme von der LiaScript-Dokumentation im Präsentationsmodus, indem die Dokumentation sich selber vorstellt ;-)

Freiberg - Research Seminar

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

Importing a local WebCam-stream into a Presentation

How to use script-tags to create image-filtering effects in LiaScript.

Liascript User Symposium (Recording)

Discover WHO is utilizing and creating free, open online courses using the user-friendly LiaScript Markdown and WHY. Learn about the role of AI in course development, and how Open Educational Resources (OER) can be enhanced through browser-based peer-to-peer technologies. Additionally, explore our latest advancements in collaborative features within LiaScript, as well as Edrys-Lite, which aids in developing and sharing interactive, peer-to-peer RemoteLabs as OER. Soon this functionality will be available in LiaScript too!

Newsletter 04/12/2023

This week, on December 6th from 12:00 - 14:00 UTC, in conjunction with the German celebration of St.

Serverless Online Education

This screencast from the Open Educa Berlin (OEB) Conference emphasized and demos 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.

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

In ihrem Fellowship geben Dr. Marc Jacob und Prof. Sebastian Zug einen Einblick in die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten zur Nutzung von OER in Lehrveranstaltungen. Das spannende Tandem-Fellowship lernen Sie im folgenden Video kennen.

Where is Content Stored?

Where can you store your course content and how can you host it for free...

Tables & Data Visualizations

This screencast from the Open Educa Berlin (OEB) Conference emphasized and demos the potential of decentralized, browser-based technologies in educational settings.

eLearning Africa 2023

Instant Creation & Publishing of Free and Open Online Courses with LiaScript

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).

How can Web 3.0 save Education?

A talk on the core concepts and principles and ideas on LiaScript at the University Future Festival 2023.

Sharing Content via Tor and OnionShare

How to share educational content via Tor and OnionShare to bypass censorship and surveillance.

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. The same can be done with any other library, framework, API ...

Executable Code

How to make your Markdown code-snippets editable and executable?

Macros

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

Embedding Multimedia and More

How can you embed multimedia content in LiaScript? This post shows you how to embed images, videos, and sounds in your LiaScript courses. You can also embed content from other websites using oEmbed.

ASCII-aRT

A quick introduction into ASCII-aRT 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

How to use different fonts in LiaScript-Markdown and why this might be useful for learning ancient and extinct languages?

Images are handled 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, and "titles" will be used as captions.

One Document - Multiple Representations

How to create narrative presentations from one Markdown document only and how one course can be used to teach in different languages. For the text to speech output we apply simple-speech ...

Praxisworkshop Erstellung eines E-Learning Kurses mit LiaScript

In zwei informativen und komprimierten Videos zeigen Lennart Rosseburg und Twillo wie man mit LiaScript effizient Online-Kurse erstellt.

We Are Developers 22 - Interactive Markdown for Education & Documentation

In this talk, we will present LiaScript, a Markdown-based DSL that is intended to be used for developing online courses, that look like screen-cast with various interactive elements.

Fischbestimmer - FISHIDENTIFIER

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

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

This blog entry presents a a detailed instruction on how to install Visual Studio Code with LiaScript and how to use it to develop your LiaScript courses.

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. In diesem E-Teach@Talk spricht Prof. Dr. Sebastian Zug von der TU Bergakademie in Freiberg über seine Erfahrungen beim interaktiven Einsatz von LiaScript in der Lehre. Es wird auch ein Ausblick auf die zukünftigen und derzeitigen Entwicklungen von LiaScript gegeben und es wird diskutiert, was OER eigentlich können muss.

LiaScript Tutorial an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg (German)

In diesem Tutorial werden die neusten Features und das "neue" Design von LiaScript vorgestellt. Die Vorschau auf die Klassenraumfunktionen sind in der aktuellen Version bereits enthalten und können von jedem frei und ohne Login und ohne Logging genutzt werden...