Risk Management/Import and Export Course Material

Format Import/Export of Course Material

Wikiversity or in general other wiki resource with wikimedia infrastructure are regarded as a Educational Content Sink (ECS) the Open Educational Resources. This means that content runs (like water downhill) into the sink and from the ECS Open Educational Resources are converted into other desired formats for further use in an educational environment. To accomplish this multiformat use of OER it is important to have an IT infrastructure that supports the authors of OER developers to create

• Office products,
• PDF,
• HTML,
• MarkDown,
• LaTeX documents,
• ...

PanDoc is the underlying tool to support the cross format conversion of Open Educational Resouces. A OpenSource converter PanDocElectron was build to support requirement.

Learning Task

• Explore PanDocElectron learn about export format options directly from Wikiversity.
• Learn how to cite creative commons versions of a learning resource in line with the licensing conditions.