On 31 July 2020 at 17:32 Grounder UK <grounderuk@gmail.com> wrote:

I can certainly see the possibility of many interesting use cases there.

Thanks for the comments. I think the main point about questions online is that the reuse value is what is hard to get under control.

In the AW spirit, one could imagine a pilot project, for some class of questions, of an authoring method that would allow questions to be exported to Moodle XML, localised to any of some range of languages. Such a pilot would engage with foundational issues that come up with AW.

Then one could broaden things out. Questions and other applications that amount to an HTML form and some processing of inputs to give output are protean. That isn't really the issue: it is having standardised specifications to work with. Exports in the Wikimedia world would be to wikitext via Lua. It's the format before that happens that holds the promise of wider reuse in education.

There has been work in this area, and I won't go into it here. What seems to me key is the difference between the "invertebrate" world of HTML forms lashed up just as people want, with no regard for reuse: and the question data being clearly separated from the "wiring" of a form, and its processing routine.

In any case it seems to me that the problems involved here can probably be addressed, by standing on the shoulders of AW.

Charles