eLML (eLesson Markup Language)

The eLML team is very happy to announce another award for our project: The silver medal at the IMS Learning Impact Awards 2010 in Long Beach. eLML got invited to Long Beach because it was one of the 13 finalists in the category "New and Research ... [More] & Development": http://www.imsglobal.org/learningimpact2010/awards2010finalists.html You can find a photo of the award on the eLML website entry page or here: http://www.elml.org/website/en/image/imsaward2010_prize.jpg http://www.elml.org/website/en/image/imsaward2010_fislerabel.jpg The official announcement has not yet been published on the IMS website but should be online within the next days. Thanks a lot to the IMS team for organizing the conference and thanks to everyone in the eLML community for your contributions to the eLML projects. It is also YOUR prize! [Less]

The eLML team is very happy to announce another award for our project: The silver medal at the IMS Learning Impact Awards 2010 in Long Beach. eLML got invited to Long Beach because it was one of the 13 finalists in the category "New and Research & Development":

After one year of hard work, the eLML team is proud to present the new eLML 6 version! Here are the highlights: 1. Create eBooks directly from your lessons (for iPad etc.) 2. Create newer XHTML 1.1 Strict code 3. New and faster Firedocs 1.3 eLML ... [More] Editor 4. New feature for referencing and highlighting content 5. Now supporting latest YAML 3.2 release 6. SCORM-transformation reworked and vastly improved And to make it even easier for you we have released eLML now under the more liberal Apache 2 License (not GPL anymore)! ------------------------------------------------ Let me just briefly outline the new features. 1. eBooks: With eLML you can now create the popular ePub-format for eBooks. This means you can view your lesson on your iPad or iPhone or any other popular eBook-reader. For more information check: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/output_epub.html You can also download entire ELML website as an eBook (the link is in the footer of each page) and view it with your favorite eBook-Reader. This is the first release of the ePub-format converter for eLML and we will continue developing improvements of this converter. So please send us comments and feedback. 2. XHTML 1.1 Strict: The ePub-standard is based on XHTML 1.1 Strict HTML code. Since eLML in the past was working with the more flexible XHTML 1.0 Transiational standard, we had to create a new converter for XHTML 1.1 Strict. So now you can choose if you want to create XHTML 1.0 Transitional or 1.1 Strict code in eLML. We took the advantage of including a lot of code improvements into this rebuild. To read more about this, point your browser to: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/output_xhtml.html 3. Firedocs 1.3 eLML Editor: The faster and improved Firedocs 1.3 eLML Editor has already been released but we now officially included it into the eLML 6 download package. Check the older eLML news for more information about the new 1.3 series. 4. Referencing and highlighting parts of your lesson: With the new labelRef-attribute you can reference other parts of your lesson. A language course at our university uses this feature for highlighting verbs, nouns, adjectives etc. If the students e.g. hoovers over the word "noun" then the nound in the foreign language sentence visually stands out. Read more about the new labelRef-attribute here: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/manual_attributes.html 5. YAML 3.2 Support We are still very fond of the CSS framework YAML. The new eLML 6 release contains the latest updates and improvements to make eLML compatible with the YAML 3.2, the newest version currently out. Please note that we cannot include YAML into the eLML download package, so you have to download it yourself and included it into eLML. Check the readme.txt file that is included in the eLML package. http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/output_yaml.html 6. SCORM Updated: The eLML to SCORM converter has been totally rewritten and creates now SCORM 1.2 files that are compatible with all the major LMS. To read more about creating IMS or SCORM content packages or to download a demo package and test it with our LMS go to: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/output_cp.html Finally: Bugfixes, improvements, and updated manual During the last year many improvements and bugfixes have been included into the new eLML 6 release. If you are interested in details, please go to our Sourceforge project website and search the Bugtracker and Feature Tracker for more information. The JavaScripts for lightwindow, selfCheck and glossary terms have been improved, the print and other version were updated and last but not least the whole website and manual is now up-to-date containing all the information you need for working with eLML 6. Have fun! We love to hear from you and get feedback! Contact us at [email protected] [Less]

After one year of hard work, the eLML team is proud to present the new eLML 6 version! Here are the highlights: 1. Create eBooks directly from your lessons (for iPad etc.) 2. Create newer XHTML 1.1 Strict code 3. New and faster Firedocs 1.3 eLML ... [More] Editor 4. New feature for referencing and highlighting content 5. Now supporting latest YAML 3.2 release 6. SCORM-transformation reworked and vastly improved And to make it even easier for you we have released eLML now under the more liberal Apache 2 License (not GPL anymore)! ------------------------------------------------ Let me just briefly outline the new features. 1. eBooks: With eLML you can now create the popular ePub-format for eBooks. This means you can view your lesson on your iPad or iPhone or any other popular eBook-reader. For more information check: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/output_epub.html You can also download entire ELML website as an eBook (the link is in the footer of each page) and view it with your favorite eBook-Reader. This is the first release of the ePub-format converter for eLML and we will continue developing improvements of this converter. So please send us comments and feedback. 2. XHTML 1.1 Strict: The ePub-standard is based on XHTML 1.1 Strict HTML code. Since eLML in the past was working with the more flexible XHTML 1.0 Transiational standard, we had to create a new converter for XHTML 1.1 Strict. So now you can choose if you want to create XHTML 1.0 Transitional or 1.1 Strict code in eLML. We took the advantage of including a lot of code improvements into this rebuild. To read more about this, point your browser to: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/output_xhtml.html 3. Firedocs 1.3 eLML Editor: The faster and improved Firedocs 1.3 eLML Editor has already been released but we now officially included it into the eLML 6 download package. Check the older eLML news for more information about the new 1.3 series. 4. Referencing and highlighting parts of your lesson: With the new labelRef-attribute you can reference other parts of your lesson. A language course at our university uses this feature for highlighting verbs, nouns, adjectives etc. If the students e.g. hoovers over the word "noun" then the nound in the foreign language sentence visually stands out. Read more about the new labelRef-attribute here: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/manual_attributes.html 5. YAML 3.2 Support We are still very fond of the CSS framework YAML. The new eLML 6 release contains the latest updates and improvements to make eLML compatible with the YAML 3.2, the newest version currently out. Please note that we cannot include YAML into the eLML download package, so you have to download it yourself and included it into eLML. Check the readme.txt file that is included in the eLML package. http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/output_yaml.html 6. SCORM Updated: The eLML to SCORM converter has been totally rewritten and creates now SCORM 1.2 files that are compatible with all the major LMS. To read more about creating IMS or SCORM content packages or to download a demo package and test it with our LMS go to: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/output_cp.html Finally: Bugfixes, improvements, and updated manual During the last year many improvements and bugfixes have been included into the new eLML 6 release. If you are interested in details, please go to our Sourceforge project website and search the Bugtracker and Feature Tracker for more information. The JavaScripts for lightwindow, selfCheck and glossary terms have been improved, the print and other version were updated and last but not least the whole website and manual is now up-to-date containing all the information you need for working with eLML 6. Have fun! We love to hear from you and get feedback! Contact us at [email protected] [Less]

Dear eLML-User,After one year of hard work, the eLML team is proud to present the new eLML 6 version! Here are the highlights:1. Create eBooks directly from your lessons (for iPad etc.)

Today the open source license of the eLML (eLesson Markup Language) project changed from the restrictive GPL to the more open Apache 2 license. This means that in future you will be able to use eLML also for commercial products without the need to ... [More] contribute back your developments based on the eLML project. For us it means that we can start working on integrations of eLML into our open source learning management system OLAT (www.olat.org), also released under the open source Apache 2 license. Nevertheless I would like to stress that we are still happy to hear from you, are interested to see how you are using eLML and what you are developing with it. So the switch to the more liberal Apache license does not mean that we are not interested in cooperations, on the contrary. As you already know we can also list your project on the success stories page if you are interested: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/about_success_stories.html The full license text for the Apache 2 license can be found here: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html [Less]

Today the open source license of the eLML (eLesson Markup Language) project changed from the restrictive GPL to the more open Apache 2 license. This means that in future you will be able to use eLML also for commercial products without the need to ... [More] contribute back your developments based on the eLML project. For us it means that we can start working on integrations of eLML into our open source learning management system OLAT (www.olat.org), also released under the open source Apache 2 license. Nevertheless I would like to stress that we are still happy to hear from you, are interested to see how you are using eLML and what you are developing with it. So the switch to the more liberal Apache license does not mean that we are not interested in cooperations, on the contrary. As you already know we can also list your project on the success stories page if you are interested: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/about_success_stories.html The full license text for the Apache 2 license can be found here: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html [Less]

Today the open source license of the eLML (eLesson Markup Language) project changed from the restrictive GPL to the more open Apache 2 license. This means that in future you will be able to use eLML also for commercial products without the need to ... [More] contribute back your developments based on the eLML project. For us it means that we can start working on integrations of eLML into our open source learning management system OLAT (www.olat.org), also released under the open source Apache 2 license. Nevertheless I would like to stress that we are still happy to hear from you, are interested to see how you are using eLML and what you are developing with it. So the switch to the more liberal Apache license does not mean that we are not interested in cooperations, on the contrary. As you already know we can also list your project on the success stories page if you are interested: [Less]

Unfortunatly Google did not choose the University of Zurich as a mentor organziation for the Google Summer of Code 2010 program and thus eLML will not be able to provide projects this year. We will still leave the project ideas listed under "About: ... [More] Participating" and if you are looking for an interesting topic for your thesis or diploma work, consider one of the following projects: http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/about_participating.html [Less]

Unfortunatly Google did not choose the University of Zurich as a mentor organziation for the Google Summer of Code 2010 program and thus eLML will not be able to provide projects this year. We will still leave the project ideas listed under "About: ... [More] Participating" and if you are looking for an interesting topic for your thesis or diploma work, consider one of the following projects: [Less]