eLML (eLesson Markup Language)

The Swiss GIS-eLearning project GITTA wins the second prize at this years Medida Prix Final in Vienna, Austria. eLML evolved out of the GITTA project and therefore we are very happy and would like to congratulate our colleagues for this prize. The ... [More] jury complimented the project for its reusability and its open technical framework which is of course eLML. The project coordinator Monika Niederhuber and former project coordinator Joël Fisler (now working for eLML) were happy to receive the prize of 25'000 Euros from Austrian minister Dr. Johannes Hahn. (0 comments) [Less]

After over a year of hard work by many people of the eLML community I am very pleased to announce a new release: eLML 5 has been released this week together with the new and long awaited "Firedocs eLML editor". More new features of eLML 5 are the ... [More] "Template Builder" (a Google Summer of Code project) to generate eLML layout templates (XSLT), transformation files for the Office format ODF/ODT and DocBook (also a Google Summer of Code project), full integration of the CSS framework YAML, the HTML output is searchengine-optimized etc. You will find a full list of new features below. Please note that also the website http://www.elml.org has been updated with new information and some useful tipps about eLML. (0 comments) [Less]

Finally we have managed to publish our long awaited editor. We released it as version 1.2b01 because 1.0 and 1.1 were internal releases. Beta because we know there are still some bugs that we have to fix before calling it 1.2 final. (0 comments)

To officially close GSoC 2008 at the University of Zurich we organized a closing event with presentations followed by a barbecue. At this event all the students presented their work and shared their results with the audience that was both present ... [More] physically and online via live stream. After two hours of presentations and discussions - one as a conference call from Germany and two students via video from India - the student and mentors celebrated with barbecue and beer until late at the Irchel campus. The presentations are available online as video streams. (0 comments) [Less]

As most of you know we had two students working for Google Summer of Code:- Thomas Linowsky created an eLML Template Generator- Alberto Sanz created a transformation file for the DocBook format (0 comments)

We are very happy to announce that eLML won a professional Gold award at the ISPRS conference in Beijing. Every four years the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is holding its Computer Assisted Teaching contest ... [More] (CATcon) and we are very happy to announce that at its 5th edition eLML won a Gold Award in the field of professional tools. (0 comments) [Less]

The first of a the two Google Summer of Code projects publishes first results today. Student Thomas Linowsky was working hard to create a first beta release of his Template Builder tool. With this tool you can create easily templates for eLML. The ... [More] tool is WYSIWYG and webbased with means that you can create your eLML-templates using any modern webbrowser. (0 comments) [Less]

We are happy to announce that eLML is one of the finalists running for the European MedidaPrix (100'000 Euros) which will be awarded at the GMW Conference in Austria on September 18th. More information can be found here: (0 comments)

Google Summer of Code officially started on May 26th. The University of Zurich received a total of 8 funded projects, six for OLAT and two for eLML. The two projects are:1. eLML template generator by Thomas Linowsky2. eLML to DocBook converter by Alberto Sanz (0 comments)

The video streams and podcasts of all the OLAT conference presentations are online. You will find the links together with galleries, slides etc. on the olat.org website. As for eLML there was one presentation (in German! We might offer a translation ... [More] in English soon...) about the basics of eLML by Joël Fisler on Friday 28th of March, 2008. You will find four different versions (Podcast, full resolution download, QuickTime stream and Flash stream) on the conference website: (0 comments) [Less]