OEB 2023 Hands-on: Serverless Online Education - The platform is dead, long live the platform!
Channel: LiaScript
Date: 04/12/2023

Screencast from the OEB 2023 Conference in Berlin
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It may surprise you, but online education doesn't need centralized platforms. The web browser has transformed into the new operating system that can present content offline and provide access to decentralized storage and communication. However, these potentials are barely or not at all used in new teaching and learning scenarios. Instead, centralized and expensive server applications are still dominant.

In this How To, we will delve into various decentralized concepts and shed light on these. Bring your laptop and you will have the opportunity to:

- Generate interactive educational content using LiaScript in small groups and share it across different channels.
- Get to interact with other users in classrooms based on various decentralized communication methods. 
- Collaboratively edit and execute code by using Edrys(-Lite) and setup a laboratory with Arduino hardware, solely through the browser. 

Join this workshop for a hands-on exploration of the future of online education, where the browser becomes the platform, and learning and creating educational content can happen anywhere, anytime.

https://github.com/LiaPlayground/OEB-2023

Session takeaways:

- You'll have a clear idea of how a modern browser can open up new ways of communication and collaboration for you.
- You'll learn about different methods to share content on the internet without needing a server.
- You'll start to critically evaluate centralized platforms and solutions, considering aspects such as cost, sustainability, and the scope of functionalities they offer.