MOOC

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) extension allows to create, maintain and attend online courses in a user-friendly way.
It introduces the Course namespace where the MediaWiki user-interface is enhanced, in order to offer the relevant functions to the user.

Installation

1. install the dependencies
   • TimedMediaHandler with its dependency MwEmbedSupport (this is no real dependecy but necessary to embed e.g. videos - as intended by the MOOC extension)
   • Bootstrap to get the proper interface layout
2. and additionally append the following line to your LocalSettings.php: require_once "$IP/extensions/MOOC/MOOC.php";

Technical Information

Technically a course in the Course namespace is a page with the content model mooc-item (format: JSON) that is defined by this extension.

Though possible in principle, this extension does not fully work without JavaScript on user-side.

Files

Technically, this extension mainly consists of the following files:

• PHP:
  • includes/content/MoocContent.php - content type handler for MOOC items
  • includes/structure/MoocContentStructureProvider.php - MOOC structure loader
  • includes/model/MoocItem.php - basic MOOC item model
  • includes/rendering/MoocContentRenderer.php - basic MOOC item renderer
• JavaScript:
  • resources/js/ext.mooc.js - general UI
  • resources/js/ext.mooc.edit.js - MOOC item editing (e.g. MW.API wrappers)
  • resources/js/ext.mooc.navigation.js - sticky navigation
  • resources/js/ext.mooc.headers.js - sticky section headers
• Stylesheet:
  • resources/less/ext.mooc.less - stylesheet for MOOC pages

Links

• Extension Page
• Project on Phabricator
• Project on Gerrit
• Extension Prototype (Wikiversity)
• Extension Prototype Demo (Wikiversity)

Credits

The extension was partly founded by the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg as the winner of the fOERder award 2016 and by the University of Koblenz Landau