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(Project) OER Connect for ILIAS 11

Page Overview

1 Aim of Project
2 Involved Maintainers and Stakeholders
3 Related Feature Requests and Status
- 3.1 Publishing OE Resources gets Smoother
- 3.2 Guidance for Publishing
- 3.3 Looking up License Status gets Easier
- 3.4 One can Search for OE-Licensed Resources
- 3.5 Integrating OER by Importing Works Smoother
- 3.6 Harvesting an LOM Support are improved
- 3.7 Outlook
4 General Discussion

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

Publishing OE Resources gets Smoother: Workflows for publishing OER-licensed resources to a repository are smoothed out according to the results of usability tests. This includes improvements to the technical compatibility between ILIAS and repositories, with edu-sharing serving as a case study.
Guidance for Publishing: Some light-touch guidance to the publishing process for OER makes people feel more confident.
Looking up License Status of Collections gets Easier: Licence status of elements in collections is easy to understand. You can look it up at a specific place.
One can Search for OE-Licensed Resources: 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 by Importing Works Smoother: 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.
Harvesting and LOM Support are improved: Even more object types can get harvested and even more object types get LOM support.
Options for making content more interoperable between moodle and ILIAS are explored. This is done by using intermediate / translational formats.

2 Involved Maintainers and Stakeholders

3 Related Feature Requests and Status

3.1 Publishing OE Resources gets Smoother

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
Option for querying other ILIAS installations / repositories / referatories	Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]	Development of Concept is contracted	11	not JF ready, needs conceptual work
Usability Improvements of LOM Editor	Widmaier, Leon [Leon]	funding required	11	not JF ready, depends on findings in usability tests
Allow the use of VCARDs in LOM	bwOER Connect	funding required	>= 11	not JF ready
Move LOM Administration to KS	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	>= 11	not JF ready

3.2 Guidance for Publishing

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
Customizable LOM Digest	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	11	not JF ready
Remove «Typical Learning Time from LOM Digest»	Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]	funding required	11	Jour Fixe ready
Different Fields for LOM Digest	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	11	not ready, needs conceptual work
'Publish as OER'-Button for Objects	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	11	not ready, needs conceptual work

3.3 Looking up License Status gets Easier

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
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
Move License and Download-Link to Footer	Widmaier, Leon [Leon]	funding required	11	not JF ready

3.4 One can Search for OE-Licensed Resources

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
Copyright filter for media objects	Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]	interest in funding ILIAS e.V.	>= 11	not JF ready
Support of CC Licences in Search	Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]	interest in funding ILIAS e.V.	>= 11	not JF ready
Move Search Results Presentation to KS	Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]	funding required	11	almost JF ready

3.5 Integrating OER by Importing Works Smoother

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

3.6 Harvesting an LOM Support are improved

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
Abandon Setting LOM of Courses/Groups/Weblinks via SOAP	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	11	scheduled to be abandoned, JF 17 FEB 2025
Even more object types for OER Harvester	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	11	almost JF ready
LOM metadata for Learning Sequences	Seibt, Alina [alina.seibt]	funding required	11
LOM Support for Wikis	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	11	almost JF ready
Include Delete Status in OAI-PMH Interface	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	11	almost JF ready
Publishing Plugin Content as OER	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	11	almost JF ready

3.7 Outlook

For ILIAS 12

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

4 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: 17. Apr 2025, 16:19, Widmaier, Leon [Leon]