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

2. LON-CAPA 2 What is LON- CAPA?

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

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

5. LON-CAPA 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. LON-CAPA 6 Bottom: Virtual Filesystem “The aisles of your supermarket”

7. LON-CAPA 7 Bottom: Virtual Filesystem Static metadata: Dublin Core, cross-walk to IMS Dynamic metadata: use assembly data for recommender system:

8. LON-CAPA 8 LearningOnline Network

9. LON-CAPA 9 Bottom: Virtual Filesystem Currently links 3 middle schools, 18 high schools, 4 community colleges, and 24 universities 20,900 content pages 18,600 homework and exam problems 12,500 images 2,100 content assemblies 1,100 simulations and animations 500 movies Publisher libraries, “back of the chapter problems”

10. LON-CAPA 10 Middle: Resource Assembly Tool

11. LON-CAPA 11 LearningOnline Network 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

12. LON-CAPA 12 Top: Complete Course Management System Course Navigation Tools Communication features (discussion, thread) Announcements Portfolio space Homework, Exams (online/offline)

13. LON-CAPA 13 LON-CAPA Learning Content Management System Assessment System Open-Source and Free

14. LON-CAPA 14 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

15. LON-CAPA 15 Same problem, two students

16. LON-CAPA 16 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)

17. LON-CAPA 17 Feedback to Instructor One Homework Set

18. LON-CAPA 18 Feedback to Instructor

19. LON-CAPA 19 Problem Analysis

20. LON-CAPA 20 Formative Assessment: Peer-Teaching

21. LON-CAPA 21 Summative Assessment

22. LON-CAPA 22 Summative Assessment

23. LON-CAPA 23 Turning Summative into Formative

24. LON-CAPA 24 Turning Summative into Formative

25. LON-CAPA 25 LON-CAPA Learning Content Management System Assessment System Open-Source and Free

26. LON-CAPA 26 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

27. LON-CAPA 27 LON-CAPA Does it work?

28. LON-CAPA 28 Effectiveness LON-CAPA is a tool, not a curriculum. Effectiveness depends on how it is used.

29. LON-CAPA 29 Time on Task: 10,000 students x5

30. LON-CAPA 30 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

31. LON-CAPA 31 Before/After Time-On-Task vs. Perceived Helpfulness

32. LON-CAPA 32 Formative vs. Summative

33. LON-CAPA 33 Formative vs. Summative

34. LON-CAPA 34 Exam and Course Grades

35. LON-CAPA 35 Gender Differential phy231: traditional phy232: CAPA

36. LON-CAPA 36 LON-CAPA What’s Next?

37. LON-CAPA 37 Formative Assessment in Class In-Class Use of LON-CAPA Partnering with Harvard (Mazur group) and Eckerd (Junkin) on next generation “clickers”

38. LON-CAPA 38 Formative Assessment in Class More Information: Session DF 1:45-3:30 EMCB 105 Martin Vogt Harvard Bill Junkin Eckerd

39. LON-CAPA 39 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

40. LON-CAPA 40 Project Website: http://www.lon-capa.org/ Gerd Kortemeyer korte@lon-capa.org