International ILIAS Blog

32,000 user accounts and countless courses, from training programmes to compulsory training. Can a single platform cope with all that? At the SV SparkassenVersicherung[1] the solution is called 'LEOS' and is based on ILIAS. To find out more, we spoke to Tobias Höfler from the SV Academy.

Three days before the official release of ILIAS 10, The PHBern (Bern University of Teacher Education) updated their learning platform, core functions and plugins, to ILIAS 10. How was that possible? We were certainly curious and therefore decided to ask Kirstin Niggeler, the service manager for ILIAS at PHBern, directly.

Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) relies on a combination of Stud.IP and ILIAS to organise digital teaching and learning processes. Cornelis Kater is part of the e-learning team (ZQS/elsa) and not only has many years of experience, but also a clear vision for open, future-proof educational platforms. In this interview, he explains how the systems at LUH complement each other, what developments are currently underway - and also takes a look at the political framework conditions surrounding open source at universities.

More and more schools are using digital learning platforms such as ILIAS. They became increasingly important during the Covid-19 pandemic. In many places it is now difficult to imagine doing without them. At the Clara-Schumann-Gymasium (CSG), a grammar school in Holzwickede, Germany, ILIAS has been an integral part of everyday school life for years now. Jörg Meyer is a teacher, sixth form coordinator, and the person responsible for digitalisation at the school. He has kindly agreed to answer a few questions for our blog and to give us an idea of how ILIAS is used in a school environment, and what advantages it offers teachers and pupils.

Digital training is playing an increasingly important role - also in the area of medicine. But how does one go about efficiently organising online training for tens of thousands of participants? At the ärztlichen Akademie für Fort- und Weiterbildung in Nordrhein, deputy managing director Kathrin Hildebrand and her team rely on ILIAS. In this conversation, she tells us why the academy switched from Moodle to ILIAS, how they combine online and classroom formats, and what their plans for the future are.

In 'Community Stories: People, Projects, Practice', we take a look at the multifaceted ways in which ILIAS can be used in higher education, business and organisations; how both long-standing members of the ILIAS Community and new members of the society bring exciting perspectives to how they use and further develop the learning platform within their specific scenarios. We shine a light on inspiring stories and plans for the future, challenges and successes - from innovative teaching concepts to impressive projects that have been made possible thanks to ILIAS. From you, for you. The first entry (ok - second entry in the International Blog) is brought to you by Yvonne Seiler of the University of Bern.

In “Community Stories: People. Projects. Practice”, we provide insights into the many possible uses of ILIAS. Whether university, company or organization: our community shows how individually ILIAS can be used. Together we highlight inspiring stories and plans for the future, challenges and success stories - from innovative teaching concepts to impressive projects realized by ILIAS. From you, for you. Today, Jesús Copado from SURLABS gives us an exciting insight into the development possibilities of artificial intelligence in ILIAS and shows us that we can consider the potential of this so-called “danger” in the education sector too.

While ILIAS has a very large userbase in Europe, it is becoming increasingly popular in many other countries all over the world. In Japan, Tamoto Shiro is both a satisfied ILIAS user and a multiplier of knowledge. As a contractor, he works with Nagaoka University of Technology as an ILIAS administrator and is also occupied with language maintenance, documentation and video creation. Shiro helps other Japanese users to learn about and use the open-source LMS. We talked to him about his experiences.

In the series ILIAS @ home we like to use our blog to introduce you to new and veteran users of ILIAS and show you how they use the software and help to make it even better as part of the ILIAS community. Today, in the eighth part of the series, we are going to take a look at how ILIAS is used at the KROHNE Group.

In the series  ILIAS @ home  we like to use our blog to introduce you to new and veteran users of ILIAS and show you how they use the software and help to make it even better as part of the ILIAS community. Today we are going to take a look at how ILIAS is used at Generali Insurance.

In the series ILIAS @ home we use our blog to introduce you to new and veteran users of ILIAS and show you how they use the software - and help to make it even better as part of the ILIAS community. Today we are going to take a look at how ILIAS is used at the Alfred-Müller-Armack Vocational College in Cologne, Germany.