Edlib
Edlib is an open-source application for creating, sharing, storing, and using rich interactive learning resources.
The individual learner is at the center of everything we do, and our vision is to provide first-class open learning tools and content to as many of those individuals as possible. — Tommy W. Nordeng (co-founder of Cerpus)
We strongly believe that the focus should be on the individual learner. Everything we do is based on this belief, from technical solutions and content creation to user interface design and the resulting learning experience.
Edlib is being developed with
Screenshot: Edlib Content Explorer
Why Edlib?
Edlib allows you to create highly interactive H5P-based learning resources. The H5P platform provides a wealth of different interactive and rich content types for learning purposes. We believe that an increased level of meaningful interactions leads to a higher level of engagement. A higher level of engagement, in turn, leads to increased motivation ultimately resulting in a more positive learning outcome for the learner.
The internet is a vast collection of self-contained content repositories like Wikipedia and YouTube with many purpose-built tools to create rich interactive content. So, the question becomes: How can we combine the vast trove of existing, high-quality content with the necessary creation tools to ensure a superior learning experience for the individual learner? We think that, at least, a part of the answer to that question is to make the threshold for acquiring external content as low as possible. In Edlib, for example, a YouTube video can be converted into an Edlib resource by just providing its URL. From that point onwards, it will be included in the Edlib content repository just like any other Edlib resource, ready for reuse.
Screenshot: Edlib Content Author with interactive video content type editor
Feature Support
Edlib is continuously evolving, with existing features being refined and new features being added. The following is a list of major features, several of which are in active development.
Existing Features
- Support for all H5P open-source content types, some of which are highlighted below:
- Interactive video: An interactive video content type that allows users to add multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, pop-up text, and other interactions to their videos.
- Course presentation: A presentation content type that allows users to add multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, text, and other interactions to their presentations.
- Flashcards: Interactive flashcards. Create a set of stylish and intuitive flashcards that have images paired with questions and answers.
- Quiz: A content type allowing creatives to create quizzes. Many question types are supported like multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blanks, drag-the-words, mark-the-words, and regular drag-and-drop.
- Content explorer to easily find and re-use existing Edlib content. Content can be filtered by H5P content type, tags, Creative-Commons license, and so forth.
- Create content-by-URL: the ability to point to an existing (publicly available) resource and turn it into an Edlib-based learning resource.
- Licensing module with an intelligent Creative-Commons license selector.
- Authoring workflows, including maintaining resources private or making them publicly available.
- Collaboration functionality for content creators.
- Easy integration with third-party APIs, including audio, video, and image APIs.
- The ability to create quizzes and game-based learning activities quickly and easily from the integrated question bank.
- Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) version 1.0/1.2 provider and consumer support.
- Resource versioning.
- The ability to create language variants of the same underlying resource easily and quickly.
Features in Development
- The "Doku" content type allows for the bundling of multiple resources into a collection of resources and/or the further contextualization of H5P-based resources with supplementary content, or instructions, effectively converting an interactive resource into a full-fledged learning resource.
- The ability to include a recommendation engine to surface relevant content for course and game creators (currently in closed beta).
- The Question Bank service to assist with the auto-generation of, for example, H5P Question Sets or educational games
Installation
Documentation to help you install Edlib and start developing against it is currently being worked on. Check back for updates.
Documentation
Visit Edlib Docs to view the documentation. We are continuously working on updating and improving the documentation. If you see any errors or can’t find what you were looking for, check our issues and discussions here on GitHub before creating a new.
How to Contribute
Cerpus welcomes contributions from anyone and everyone. Please see our guidelines for contributing.
In general, we follow the "fork-and-pull" Git workflow:
- Fork the repository on GitHub
- Clone the project to your machine
- Commit changes to your branch
- Push your work back up to your fork
- Submit a Pull request so that we can review your changes. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS.
Issues
If something isn't working the way you expected, please look at previously logged issues to resolve common problems first. Have you found a new bug? Want to request a new feature? We'd love to hear from you. Please let us know by submitting an issue.
Translation
Edlib's user interface is multilingual. Support for new languages can be added without extensive technical knowledge. See the Translating Edlib section in the documentation for more info.
Translation status
| API Name | Status |
|---|---|
| API - Content author |  |
| NPM - Components |  |
| WWW - |  |
Miscellaneous
Metadata
Edlib includes the ability to record metadata on learning objects. Setting the metadata can be done directly on the object itself or indirectly via transitive relations. Setting contextual metadata on learning objects is a means to an end, not an end in itself; that is, contextual metadata is about findability of content for both creators and learners.
Environment variables
- EDLIBCOMMON_CONTENTAUTHOR_URL
- EDLIBCOMMON_CONTENTAUTHOR_CONSUMER_KEY
- EDLIBCOMMON_CONTENTAUTHOR_CONSUMER_SECRET
- EDLIBCOMMON_EXTERNALAUTH_JWKS_ENDPOINT
- EDLIBCOMMON_EXTERNALAUTH_PROPERTYPATH_ID
- EDLIBCOMMON_EXTERNALAUTH_PROPERTYPATH_EMAIL
- EDLIBCOMMON_EXTERNALAUTH_PROPERTYPATH_FIRSTNAME
- EDLIBCOMMON_EXTERNALAUTH_PROPERTYPATH_LASTNAME
- EDLIBCOMMON_ELASTICSEARCH_URL
- EDLIBCOMMON_DB_HOST
- EDLIBCOMMON_DB_USER
- EDLIBCOMMON_DB_PASSWORD
- EDLIBCOMMON_DB_PORT
- EDLIBCOMMON_DB_PREFIX
- EDLIBCOMMON_CORE_INTERNAL_URL