1. Michigan State University
The LearningOnline Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach (LON-CAPA)
Gerd Kortemeyer
Wolfgang Bauer
Michigan State University

2. LON-CAPA
What is LON- CAPA?

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

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

5. 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

6. Bottom: Virtual Filesystem
“The aisles of your supermarket”
Your shopping cart: The Resource Assembly Tool

7. Middle: Resource Assembly Tool

8. Top: Complete Course Management System
Course Navigation Tools
Communication features (discussion, thread)
Announcements
Portfolio space
Homework, Exams (online/offline)

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

10. LON-CAPA’s Approach
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

11. Same problem, two students

12. 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

13. Feedback to Instructor
One Homework Set

14. Feedback to Instructor

15. Problem Analysis

16. Formative Assessment: Peer-Teaching

17. Summative Assessment

18. Summative Assessment

19. Turning Summative into Formative

20. Turning Summative into Formative

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

22. LON-CAPA Open-source free software GNU General Public License
No license fees
Can be modified, extended, improved, adapted ...
Runs on Linux, no license fees for operating system
Developed by educators for educators

23. LON-CAPA
Does it work?

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

25. Time on Task: 10,000 students x5

26. 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

27. Before/After Time-On-Task vs. Perceived Helpfulness

28. Formative vs. Summative

29. Formative vs. Summative

30. Exam and Course Grades

31. Gender Differential
phy231: traditional
phy232: CAPA

32. LON-CAPA
What’s Next?

33. Formative Assessment in Class
In-Class Use of LON-CAPA
Partnering with Harvard (Mazur group) on using LON- CAPA as next generation “clickers”

34. Formative Assessment in Class

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