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

2. LON-CAPA 2 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?

3. LON-CAPA 3 What is LON- CAPA?

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

5. LON-CAPA 5 Learning Content Management System Assessment System Open-Source and Free

6. LON-CAPA 6 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

7. LON-CAPA 7 Bottom: Content Repository “The aisles of your supermarket”

8. LON-CAPA 8 Bottom: Content Repository

9. LON-CAPA 9 Bottom: Content Repository Currently links 4 middle schools, 36 high schools, 5 community colleges, and 34 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”

10. LON-CAPA 10 Middle: Resource Assembly

11. LON-CAPA 11 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

12. LON-CAPA 12 Middle: Resource Assembly Static metadata: Dublin Core, cross-walk to IMS Dynamic metadata: use assembly data for recommender system:

13. LON-CAPA 13 Middle: Resource Assembly Ranked Search

14. LON-CAPA 14 Top: Complete Course Management System Course Navigation Tools Communication features (discussion, thread) Announcements Portfolio space Homework Exams (online/offline)

15. LON-CAPA 15 LON-CAPA Learning Content Management System Assessment System Open-Source and Free

16. LON-CAPA 16 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

17. LON-CAPA 17 Same problem, two students

18. LON-CAPA 18 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

19. LON-CAPA 19 Focus on Science and Math Print: HTML->LaTeX PDF output Combined HTML/ LaTeX Source

20. LON-CAPA 20 Focus on Science and Math Symbolic math grading

21. LON-CAPA 21 Focus on Science and Math Chemical formulas and structures

22. LON-CAPA 22 Focus on Science and Math Full support of physical units

23. LON-CAPA 23 Focus on Science and Math Dynamic Graphing

24. LON-CAPA 24 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)

25. LON-CAPA 25 Feedback to Instructor

26. LON-CAPA 26 Feedback to Instructor

27. LON-CAPA 27 Problem Analysis

28. LON-CAPA 28 Formative Assessment: Peer-Teaching

29. LON-CAPA 29 Formative Assessment Individual learner help

30. LON-CAPA 30 Summative Assessment

31. LON-CAPA 31 Summative Assessment

32. LON-CAPA 32 Turning Summative into Formative

33. LON-CAPA 33 Turning Summative into Formative

34. LON-CAPA 34 LON-CAPA Learning Content Management System Assessment System Open-Source and Free

35. LON-CAPA 35 LON-CAPA Open-source free software GNU General Public License No license fees Can be modified, extended, improved, adapted... Developed by educators for educators

36. LON-CAPA 36 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

37. LON-CAPA 37 LON-CAPA Does it work?

38. LON-CAPA 38 Effectiveness LON-CAPA is a tool, not a curriculum. Effectiveness depends on how it is used.

39. LON-CAPA 39 Time on Task: 10,000 students x5

40. LON-CAPA 40 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

41. LON-CAPA 41 Before/After Time-On-Task vs. Perceived Helpfulness

42. LON-CAPA 42 Formative vs. Summative

43. LON-CAPA 43 Formative vs. Summative

44. LON-CAPA 44 Exam and Course Grades

45. LON-CAPA 45 Gender Differential phy231: traditional phy232: CAPA

46. LON-CAPA 46 LON-CAPA What’s Next?

47. LON-CAPA 47 Formative Assessment in Class In-Class Use of LON-CAPA Partnering with Harvard (Mazur group) and Erskine (Junkin) on next generation “clickers”

48. LON-CAPA 48 Formative Assessment in Class done

49. LON-CAPA 49 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

50. LON-CAPA 50 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

51. LON-CAPA 51 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

52. LON-CAPA 52 Project Website: http://www.lon-capa.org/ Gerd Kortemeyer korte@lon-capa.org