1. LON-CAPA at Ohio University Mark Lucas, Dept of Physics and Astronomy Outline: History Usage Resources Issues

2. History CAPA: pilot Fall 1994 Used in –All introductory physics (algebra and calc) –Physical Sciences –Introductory Chemistry –Delivery of assignments (no exams,quizzes) Piloting LON-CAPA – Winter 2002

3. Piloting Winter 2002 – Phys 202 (Lucas) (100) Spring 2002 – Phys 203 (Lucas) (100) Summer 2002 – Phys 201(Lucas) (40) Fall 2002 – 201/251 – (Lucas/Ingram) (450) Winter 2003 – 6 courses – all of physics –700 students –Half of department faculty (about 12 of 25)

4. Typical Usage Homework – start as CAPA replacement Including ancillary notes, demos, etc…. No integrated online courses yet Kerberos 5 – university authentication Full use of online printing

5. Resources: Warm Bodies Mark Lucas – 50% Faculty/50% CAPA Sys Mgr –Support hardware, OS, LON-CAPA, faculty training, library maintenance, teach intro physics Prasenjit Sarkar – Undergrad Asst Manager Typically 1 graduate student/quarter Matthew Phillips – Chemistry Educational Technology Specialist (will handle some of chemistry support)

6. Resources: Other In contact with Center for Instructional Technology in Learning –Moral Support, some undergrad support Internal grant - $25,000 for hardware –(took second try)

7. Resources: Fall 3 Dell PIII 800 Mhz with 380MB RAM 450 students Some load issues, but partially software In general was doing okay

8. Resources: Winter December: $20,000 total –4 Dell PowerEdge 2650’s –Dual 2.0GHz Xeons –2GB RAM –1 with RAID –Tape backup –APS,switch,etc…

9. Libraries and Resources Worked on translator with Guy Serway, Tipler, p200, p250 Published domain-only for QC and proprietary issues Talk to me if interested in some of P200 problems Beginning work on public Physlet library

10. Organization of Courses Users: P200 – course sequences, quarter by quarter OUp200lib – library – limited authorship Serwaylib – library – limited authorship Lucas – own play space

11. Lessons learned: Suggestion: publish locally first, libraries evolve –When comfortable with style and quality, PLEASE PUBLISH with wider access –Have been adapting as printing solidifies Need for lots of examples Login problems can be a time sink –Working on more extensive login diagnostics –http://loncapa.phy.ohiou.edu/help

12. Future: Increase content use for Physics CCLI? Improve libraries and beginning publishing for free use. Convince Chemistry to jump on board Re-visit CITL (Instructional Technology) Submit Bug/Feature reports Fix bug reports