Shiny New e-Learning Platforms: Great for Business, a Dead-end for Online Education?
Do centralised platforms really support the distribution of knowledge and might fancy but restrictive educator interfaces actually be a threat to creativity? As an alternative we developed LiaScript, an extendable language for creating interactive online courses. Content can be created, edited, stored everywhere and shared freely. It even works offline, no back-end required. You will learn how to create quizzes with brackets, how to articulate and create animations with braces, and much more.
Learning outcomes:
- What are the problems of centralized platforms
- How can online education work on a decentralized web and infrastructure...
- How to use LiaScript to create open educational resources (OER)
What's the name of the Markdown-dialect that was developed to create educational content?
[[LiaScript]]
Just add as many points as you wish:
[[X]] Only the **X** marks the correct point.
[[ ]] Empty ones are wrong.
[[X]] ...
A single-choice with a solution
[( )] ...
[(X)] <-- Only the **X** is allowed.
[( )] ...
That was the correct answer, you can now play Prince of Persion!
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
t = np.arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.01)
s = np.sin(2 * np.pi * t)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(t, s)
ax.grid(True, linestyle='-.')
ax.tick_params(labelcolor='r', labelsize='medium', width=3)
plt.show()
plot(fig) # <- this is required to plot the fig also on the LiaScript canvas@Pyodide.eval
byte leds[] = {13, 12, 11, 10};
void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200);
for (byte i = 0; i < sizeof(leds); i++) {
pinMode(leds[i], OUTPUT);
}
}
int i = 0;
void loop() {
Serial.print("LED: ");
Serial.println(i);
digitalWrite(leds[i], HIGH);
delay(250);
digitalWrite(leds[i], LOW);
i = (i + 1) % sizeof(leds);
}@AVR8js.sketch(example)
How do you like LiaScript?
[(1)] its ok ...
[(2)] I will use it
[(3)] Probably something to think about
[(4)] No way, this will replace platforms
Add some random words ...
[[___]]
[[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]]
[ ] option 1
[ ] option 2
[ ] option 3
[ ] option 4
--{{0}}--
Everything that is related to animations, is associated to braces. Double braces at the beginning of a block indicate the point in time when something should appear or disappear. Braces surrounded by dashes can be interpreted as the explanation for a specific point. That's it, if you change the representation of the course, these elements will be treated differently.
--{{1}}--
See this important table.
{{1-2}}
| I | appear | at | first |
|---|---|---|---|
| and | disappear | at | two |
{{2}}
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I will remain till the end
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and do have some {3}{inline animations}
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inline effects can also {3-4}{disappear} ...
--{{2}}-- The bullet point list is also quite important, it contains some sub effects
--{{3 Russian Female}}-- Первоначально создан в 2004 году Джоном Грубером (англ. John Gruber) и Аароном Шварцем. Многие идеи языка были позаимствованы из существующих соглашений по разметке текста в электронных письмах...
--{{4}}-- If you try out the experimental Google translation, you will find out that everything gets translated and also the voice will change, except for the Russian text, this will remain.
{{0-1}}
| Year | Finland | USA | Germany | China |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6.80942 | 4.42079 | 1.84192 | |
| 1996 | 6.86052 | 4.48319 | 1.85338 | |
| 1997 | ||||
| 1998 | 4.45345 | 1.84432 | ||
| 1999 | 5.86960 | 1.88803 | ||
| 2000 | 5.71687 | |||
| 2001 | 5.84797 | |||
| 2002 | 6.02477 | |||
| 2003 | 6.17476 | |||
| 2004 | 6.16849 | |||
| 2005 | 6.03605 | |||
| 2006 | 5.93809 | 4.27930 | ||
| 2007 | 5.68608 | 4.34302 | ||
| 2008 | 5.84676 | 4.40954 | ||
| 2009 | 6.48517 | 4.88047 | ||
| 2010 | 6.54070 | 5.42001 | 4.91368 | |
| 2011 | 6.48200 | 5.22389 | 4.80779 | |
| 2012 | 7.19254 | 5.19485 | 4.93331 | |
| 2013 | 7.15848 | 4.94378 | 4.93496 | |
| 2014 | 7.15155 | 4.98948 | 4.93112 |
{{1-2}}
| Animal | weight in kg | Lifespan years | Mitogen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mouse | 0.028 | 2 | 95 |
| Flying squirrel | 0.085 | 15 | 50 |
| Brown bat | 0.020 | 30 | 10 |
| Sheep | 90 | 12 | 95 |
| Human | 68 | 70 | 10 |
{{2}}
| Music-Style {2-3}{1994} {3}{2014} | Classic | Country | Reggae | Hip-Hop | Hard-Rock | Samba |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student rating | {2-3}{50} {3}{20} | {2-3}{50} {3}{30} | 100 | {2-3}{200} {3}{220} | {2-3}{350} {3}{150} | {2-3}{250} {3}{230} |
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A direct link:
https://LiaScript.github.io -
A named link:
[LiaScript](https://LiaScript.github.io) -
An internal link:
[about liascript](#about-liascript) -
An image !:
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Audio ?:
?[alt text](ref to audio) -
Video !?:
!?[alt text](ref to video) -
Anything ??:
??[alt text](https://website...)
Title
1.9 | DOTS
| *
y | * *
- | r r r r r r r*r r r r*r r r r r r r
a | * *
x | * *
i | B B B B B * B B B B B B * B B B B B
s | * *
| * * * * * *
-1 +------------------------------------
0.1 x-axis 1
Generation Publication Usage
.-----------. Modes:
| LiaScript Plugin A ╔══════| Browser |══════╗
| | Plugin B native ║ '-----------' ║"- Textbook "
v v +-------> ║ Digital Systems ║"- Presentation "
+---------------------+ | ║ (Sprint 2021) ║"- Slides "
| # Digital Systems |\ .-,( ),-. ╚═════════════════════════╝
| (Sprint 2021) +-+ .-( )-. .-----------.
| | --> ( Cloud ) ╔══════| LMS |══════╗
|"##"Introduction | '-( ).-' ║ '-----------' ║
| + ... | '-.( ).-' SCORM ║ Digital Systems ║
+-----------------------+ +-------> ║ (Sprint 2021) ║
| ╚═════════════════════════╝
| .-----------.
| ╔══════| pdfViewer |══════╗
| export ║ '-----------' ║
+-------> ║ Digital Systems ║
║ (Sprint 2021) ║
╚═════════════════════════╝
"- Atom Editor with LiaScript Extention "|"- [Github](https://github.io) "
"- [CodiLia](https://github.com/liascript/codilia)"|"- [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com) "
" Online Editor @TUBAF "|"- [IPFS](https://ipfs.io), ... "
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Project-Website: https://LiaScript.github.io
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Open-Source: https://github.com/liascript
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyiTe2GkW_u05HSdvUblGYg
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Additional resources:
- Documentation: https://github.com/LiaScript/docs
- Free books: https://github.com/LiaBooks
- Templates: https://github.com/LiaTemplates
- Talks & ...: https://github.com/LiaPlayground
- Blog: https://aizac.herokuapp.com
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Editor: https://atom.io
- Liascript-Preview: https://atom.io/packages/liascript-preview
- Liascript-Snippets: https://atom.io/packages/liascript-snippets
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Development-Server: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@liascript/devserver
André Dietrich is originally a robotics and embedded software developer, now working as a researcher at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Due to struggles with common Learning-Management-Systems and authoring-systems, he started the development on LiaScript, a language-based approach for creating interactive and open online-courses. His current research interests are language design, new web technologies and online education with focus on open educational resources.
