Hi Sasha, Thanks for sending this out. As someone who cares a lot about collaborative learning tools and methodologies, this is something of great interest to me.
I'll follow up privately as this may warrant a follow up conversation. Thanks, JM On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 9:34 AM Sasha Varlamov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, it's been wonderful to follow the discussions here on the edX > forums for a while, and I recently published an article about EOCS which is > a new Open Courseware Standard that we have been developing as part of the > EXLskills.com (https://github.com/exlskills) platform. It was heavily > inspired/motivated by many of the awesome developments with OLX that edX > courses use, and so I wanted to share our standard with the edX community. > The full post/discussion is hosted here > https://medium.com/@svarlamov/the-hunt-for-an-open-courseware-standard-a3808438d3dc > and I'm adding a brief summary below. You can also join our discord server > via the links at https://github.com/exlskills/exlskills for more in-depth > chat. > > Today, there exist numerous standards/formats for building courseware, > however, none of them are really meant for human readability/editing, > large-scale collaboration, or cross-format conversion -- there is also a > huge lack of automation/development tooling and APIs around today's > formats. For these reasons (among many others as well), we started working > on the EXL Open Courseware Standard (EOCS) that is being developed at > https://github.com/exlskills/exl-open-courseware-standard. EOCS is a > courseware development format that is geared towards human > readability/editing -- like a modern programming language -- with a > transpiler utility (https://github.com/exlskills/eocsutil) that contains > all of the tooling and APIs for building, testing, maintaining, and > updating courses built with EOCS or EOCS-compatible formats, such as OLX! > The goal with this format is to drive the next generation of open-source > (and source-available) courseware that can be built and maintained by the > community (or large-scale global teams) and then seamlessly deployed to > multiple platforms instantly. In the near term, we're also building in AI > and localization primitives, so that courses written in a single language > can be automatically translated/localized, proof-read, and then deployed to > an international audience -- all powered by the eocsutil CLI. These > features are already in production at https://EXLskills.com where we also > have a tutor chatbot and multi-language data stores so that online learning > can be more accessible to a global audience. With the release of this new > format -- although it is still really in its early stages -- we hope that > edX course authors will consider open-sourcing their courseware and > adopting the EOCS format/tooling to build better, more accessible, and more > open courses that the community can contribute to. For an example of a > finished course using the EOCS format, you can also check out > https://github.com/exlskills/course-java-basics > > Thanks for checking out EOCS and I look forward to the edX community's > thoughts and feedback on this new project! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "General Open edX discussion" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/fc9df38f-7bd5-4998-afdf-6ee63b691ac5%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/fc9df38f-7bd5-4998-afdf-6ee63b691ac5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- John Mark Walker Open edX Community Lead [email protected] +1 415.692.4811 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/CABF-sFPd_LVF2LEoNOuQB2%3D7bWz_kLtok0EN%3DLU%3Dj2xAH8%3Dp2g%40mail.gmail.com.
