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Keyword: Extending ILIAS
Keywords: Extending ILIAS
This Friday, 23 July, Stephan Rüping from Helmut Schmidt University and Uwe Kohnle from internetlehrer GmbH will be offering an online workshop on the topic of "LTI and ILIAS".
At the bilingual event (German/English), LTI maintainer Uwe Kohnle will first present the status quo of LTI in ILIAS and provide a look at the planned further developments. Afterwards, Colin Kiegel will present a case study from practice and show how learning portals from industry partners can be connected with LTI.
This is followed by a field report by Göran Kattenberg from the Netherlands, who explains cross-platform learning with the help of LTI and H5P. Finally, Bracken Mosbacker takes a look at the future of LTI. Mosbacker is the lead LTI engineer at the IMS Global Learning Consortium and is actively contributing to the development of the standard.
The workshop will be held via BigBlueButton. It will start at 1pm and end around 4pm. All information about the workshop and the registration email can be found in the following PDF.
Keywords: Extending ILIAS, ILIAS 6.0
Not only since our conversation with Javiera Atenas and her keynote at the ILIAS conference in Lucerne we know that data needs to be "tamed". Thus, in e-learning it is important to clarify which data we want to collect at all and how we deal with this data in the long run.
ILIAS 6 now supports the e-learning standard xAPI for the first time. This standard facilitates the integration of external learning activities into your LMS. The focus is on the logging of user activities. However, xAPI is not known for data economy. This is because all learner data is to be collected on a central server - regardless of whether it is needed or not. The data collection therefore quickly becomes very extensive. The standard does not provide for the data to be deleted at a later date.
If you want to observe learners over a long period of time and collect learning status data from a variety of devices and applications, xAPI offers many interesting possibilities. Organizations who want to minimise problematic data accumulation, on the other hand, are unsure whether and how they should use xAPI. Fortunately ILIAS 6 offers an elegant solution for them. It allows you to use the many possibilities of xAPI without losing control of your data.