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(Project) OER Connect for ILIAS 11

This is a project page that bundles several feature wiki pages which belong to a larger development activity for the ILIAS component Metadata, Export, Search, Administration, Cron Service.

This project is a follow up to the (Project) OER-friendly Infrastructure ILIAS 10.

1 Aim of Project

  1. Publishing is easy: ILIAS automatically pushes content into repositories, with edu-sharing serving as a case study.
    • Some light-touch guidance to the publishing process for OER makes people feel more confident.
    • Even more object types can get harvested and even more object types get LOM support.
  2. Search and Import of OER is smooth: Searching for OER-licensed resources in repositories from within ILIAS  improve their chance of getting noticed. The search is extended to include content found in repositories.  Integrating OER-licensed learning resources in ILIAS needs improving. Importability of content is easily assessed. If content cannot be imported it can be easily integrated in other ways
  3. Quality Assurance is facilitated: Licence status of elements in collections is easy to understand. You can look it up at a specific place.  
  4. Options Interoperability are explored: Options for making content more interoperable between moodle and ILIAS are explored. This is done by using intermediate / translational formats. 
  5. Usability is high and Documentation is current:  OER Features are well documented, well-tested and highly usable. Making Settings is intuitve. 
    • Workflows for publishing OER-licensed resources are subjected to usability tests. 
    • Workflows for searching OER are subjected to usability tests.

2 Involved Maintainers and Stakeholders

3 Related Feature Requests and Status

3.1 Publishing is easy 

Feature Request

Suggested by

Funding

Planned Release

Status

Different Fields for LOM Digest

Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

Uni Hannover 

implemented for 11

contracted

'Publish as OER'-Button for Objects

Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

Uni Freiburg

11

Conceptual work contracted

Option for querying other ILIAS installations / repositories / referatories

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]

Development of Concept is contracted

12

not JF ready, needs conceptual work 

Usability Improvements of LOM Editor

Widmaier, Leon [Leon]

funding required

12

not JF ready, depends on findings in usability tests

Allow the use of VCARDs in LOM

bwOER Connect

funding required

12

not JF ready

Move LOM Administration to KS

Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

funding required

12

not JF ready

Feature Request

Suggested by

Funding

Planned Release

Status

Even more object types for OER Harvester

Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

Uni Hannover

Implemented for 11

Contracted

LOM Support for Wikis

Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

Uni Hannover

11

Contracted

Abandon Setting LOM of Courses/Groups/Weblinks via SOAP

Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

funding required

abandoned for 11

Contracted

LOM metadata for Learning Sequences

Seibt, Alina [alina.seibt]

funding required

11

Jour Fixe ready

Include Delete Status in OAI-PMH Interface

Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

funding required

11

accepted, JF 23.06.2025

Publishing Plugin Content as OER

Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

funding required

11

almost JF ready

3.2 Search and Import of OER is smooth

Feature Request

Suggested by

Funding

Planned Release

Status

New tab ‘Media‘ and revised tab ‘Questions‘

Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

Uni Freiburg

implemented for 11

Contracted

Overview Over LOM Copyright Information of Subobjects

Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

funding required

>= 11

not Jour Fixe ready, yet

Option to put container objects with every object under CC license

Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle]

funding required

11

not Jour Fixe ready, yet

Copyright, License, Artist for Media Objects in KS-Element

Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

funding required

11

not JF ready

Feature Request

Suggested by

Funding

Planned Release

Status

Adapt Internal Links between Objects in Courses and Groups when exporting

Simon Yadel (MIau.nrw)

funding required 

11

JF ready

Export Learning Progress Settings of Objects in Courses and Groups

Simon Yadel (MIau.nrw)

funding required 

11

JF ready

Export Sorting of Objects in Courses and Groups

Simon Yadel (MIau.nrw)

funding required 

11

JF ready

Export Preconditions set between Objects in Courses and Groups

Simon Yadel (MIau.nrw)

funding required

11

JF ready

Handle Export of Objects as Background Tasks

Falkenstein, Rob [rob]

funding required

>= 11

needs conceptual work

Export SCORM with Metadata

funding required

>= 11

needs conceptual work

Feature Request

Suggested by

Funding

Planned Release

Status

Licenses in Search Results

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]

interest in funding ILIAS e.V.

>= 11

Contracted

Move Search Results Presentation to KS

Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

HSU BW HH

implemented for 11

Contracted

License filter for media objects

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]

interest in funding ILIAS e.V.

>= 11

not JF ready

3.3 Quality Assurance is facilitated

Feature Request

Suggested by

Funding

Planned Release

Status

New tab ‘Media‘ and revised tab ‘Questions‘

Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

Uni Freiburg

implemented for 11

Contracted

Overview Over LOM Copyright Information of Subobjects

Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

funding required

>= 11

not Jour Fixe ready, yet

Option to put container objects with every object under CC license

Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle]

funding required

11

not Jour Fixe ready, yet

Copyright, License, Artist for Media Objects in KS-Element

Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

funding required

11

not JF ready

3.4 Options Interoperability are explored

3.5 Usability is high and Documentation is current

4 Outlook

Feature Request

Suggested by

Funding

Planned Release

Status

Autocompleting Text Fields for Controlled Vocabularies in LOM Editor

bwOER Connect 

funding required

>= 12

not JF ready

Wizard for OER-Publishing

SIG OER

funding required

>= 12

not ready, needs conceptual work

Search includes results from OER-Repositories

funding required

>= 12

Taxon in LOM filtert Taxonomien / TAxonomien und Metadaten besser zusammenbringen

>= 12

5 General Discussion

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 25 NOV 2024: Tim explained what is planned within this project for ILIAS 11. The project is mainly supported by bwOER Connect (universities from Baden-Württemberg). Several usability tests are planned and findings might result in usability fixes for 10 and new features in 11. More ideas to improve the support for OER support are highly appreciated.

Statement UX/UI/A11y-Experts, 05 DEC 2024: 

It is difficult for us to estimate how large the group of users who will benefit from this project will be - however, the easier it becomes, the more likely it should be that OERs will be used and offered. We believe that improving interoperability and compatibility with Moodle is important for the (public) perception of ILIAS. We are very pleased about the planned usability tests and would be happy for the results to be shared; perhaps they can be of use across the board.

Statement Privacy Clinic, 09 DEC 2024

From the perspective of the Privacy Clinic, we have carefully reviewed the project and found no issues or concerns that would warrant any objections. However, if any personal data is intended to be processed, we kindly request information from the involved maintainers and stakeholders.

Last edited: Today, 12:57, Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]