LON-CAPA 1 The Use of Computers in Physics Education - Online Materials and Systems for Teaching Gerd Kortemeyer Assistant Professor of Physics Education Adjunct Professor of Physics Michigan State University

LON-CAPA 2 Schedule Presentation: The LON-CAPA System Sample Course: Introductory Physics, Mechanics Course Coordination: How to assemble and run a course Authoring: How to author online resources, including homework Later session: using computers for data collection in a student physics lab

LON-CAPA 3 IMPORTANT Please ask questions anytime Just raise your hand

LON-CAPA 4 Presentation Outline What is LON-CAPA? Learning Content Management Content Repository Content Assembly Course Management Assessment Open Source and Free Does it work? What’s Next?

LON-CAPA 5 What is LON- CAPA?

LON-CAPA 6 Learning Content Management System Assessment System Open-Source and Free

LON-CAPA 7 Learning Content Management System Assessment System Open-Source and Free

LON-CAPA 8 LearningOnline Network LON-CAPA learning content management is: a cross-institutional cross- disciplinary content repository a tool to seamlessly assemble this content a complete course management system to readily deploy this content

LON-CAPA 9 Bottom: Content Repository “The aisles of your supermarket”

LON-CAPA 10 Bottom: Content Repository

LON-CAPA 11 Bottom: Content Repository IMS Import from other course management systems IMS Export WebCT 4.0 Campus Edition Vista BlackBoard 5.0 LON-CAPA Content Repository and Courses IMS Package

LON-CAPA 12 Bottom: Content Repository Currently links 3 middle schools, 44 high schools, 5 community colleges, and 37 universities 38,300 content pages 52,600 homework and exam problems 49,300 images 6,600 content assemblies 1,100 simulations and animations 500 movies Publisher libraries, “back of the chapter problems”

LON-CAPA 13 Middle: Resource Assembly

LON-CAPA 14 Middle: Resource Assembly Writes module on energy conservation Writes module on momentum conservation Includes the two into her unit on conservation laws Uses that unit in his course

LON-CAPA 15 Middle: Resource Assembly Static metadata: Dublin Core, cross-walk to IMS Dynamic metadata: use assembly data for recommender system:

LON-CAPA 16 Middle: Resource Assembly Ranked Search

LON-CAPA 17 Top: Complete Course Management System Course Navigation Tools Communication features (discussion, thread) Announcements Portfolio space Homework Exams (online/offline)

LON-CAPA 18 LON-CAPA Learning Content Management System Assessment System Open-Source and Free

LON-CAPA 19 Online assessment with immediate adaptive feedback and multiple tries Different students get different versions of the same problem different options different graphs or images different numbers or formulas LON-CAPA’s Approach

LON-CAPA 20 Same problem, two students

LON-CAPA 21 Focus on Science and Math Combined HTML/ LaTeX Source Configurable online rendering: As HTMLAs ImageUsing Mathtype fonts Compatible CompatibleRequires browser config Low bandwidth High bandwidthLow bandwidth

LON-CAPA 22 Focus on Science and Math Print: HTML->LaTeX PDF output Combined HTML/ LaTeX Source

LON-CAPA 23 Focus on Science and Math Symbolic math grading

LON-CAPA 24 Focus on Science and Math Chemical formulas and structures

LON-CAPA 25 Focus on Science and Math Full support of physical units

LON-CAPA 26 Focus on Science and Math Dynamic Graphing

LON-CAPA 27 Formative Assessment Feedback to the student “how am I doing?” “what is expected?” Feedback to the instructor “how is my class doing?” “what do I need to deal with, and what not?” Just-In-Time Teaching (reading and problems due before class)

LON-CAPA 28 Feedback to Instructor

LON-CAPA 29 Feedback to Instructor

LON-CAPA 30 Problem Analysis

LON-CAPA 31 Formative Assessment: Peer-Teaching

LON-CAPA 32 Formative Assessment Individual learner help

LON-CAPA 33 Summative Assessment

LON-CAPA 34 Summative Assessment

LON-CAPA 35 Turning Summative into Formative

LON-CAPA 36 Turning Summative into Formative

LON-CAPA 37 LON-CAPA Learning Content Management System Assessment System Open-Source and Free

LON-CAPA 38 LON-CAPA Open-source free software GNU General Public License No license fees Can be modified, extended, improved, adapted... Developed by educators for educators

LON-CAPA 39 Runs on what? Runs on Intel or AMD hardware Approx. 200 concurrent sessions per server Linux operating system Standard free distributions: Fedora, SUSE Enterprise versions: Redhat Enterprise Server No additional database, etc, needed

LON-CAPA 40 LON-CAPA Does it work?

LON-CAPA 41 Effectiveness LON-CAPA is a tool, not a curriculum. Effectiveness depends on how it is used.

LON-CAPA 42 Time on Task: 10,000 students x5

LON-CAPA 43 Time-On-Task Academic year 2004/2005 Approx 12,600 (fall) and 10,800 (spring) MSU students 100,000 logins 16 days into the year 1,000,000 logins by March, seven months into the year Approx 30,000 students systemwide

LON-CAPA 44 Before/After Time-On-Task vs. Perceived Helpfulness

LON-CAPA 45 Formative vs. Summative

LON-CAPA 46 Formative vs. Summative

LON-CAPA 47 Exam and Course Grades

LON-CAPA 48 Gender Differential phy231: traditional phy232: CAPA

LON-CAPA 49 LON-CAPA What’s Next?

LON-CAPA 50 Formative Assessment in Class In-Class Use of LON-CAPA Partnering with Harvard (Mazur group) and Erskine (Junkin) on next generation “clickers”

LON-CAPA 51 Formative Assessment in Class done

LON-CAPA 52 Integration of Computer Algebra System LON-CAPA can already deal with multidimensional symbolic expressions through sampling Integration of Computer Algebra System will allow more flexibility Working with University of Applied Sciences at Wolfenbüttel, Germany, on integration of Maxima CAS

LON-CAPA 53 Podcasts and Feeds Support for news feeds and podcasts Podcasting of portfolio, course, and published media Mobile learning, content on- the-go SFU Chem121

LON-CAPA 54 LON-CAPA Academic Consortium Founding partners: Michigan State University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Each institution commits $200k/year for five years toward further development and support

LON-CAPA 55 Current Funding Initially developed at Michigan State University Additional funding of CAPA by Sloan and Mellon Foundations Today funded by Michigan State University, partner universities, publisher and service contracts, and the National Science Foundation within the ITR and CCLI- ASA programs

LON-CAPA 56 Project Website: Gerd Kortemeyer