The LearningOnline Network with ComputerAssisted Personalized Approach LONCAPA

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

• What is LON-CAPA?

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LON-CAPA

• Learning Content Management System
• Assessment System
• Open-Source and Free

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LON-CAPA

• Learning Content Management System
• Assessment System
• Open-Source and Free

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LearningOnline Network

• LON-CAPA learning content management is
• a cross-institutional cross-disciplinary content
  repository
• a tool to seamlessly assemble this content
• a course management system to readily deploy this
  content

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LearningOnline Network
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LearningOnline Network

• Currently used at 3 middle schools, 18 high
  schools, 4 community colleges, and 24 universities

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LearningOnline Network
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LearningOnline Network

• 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

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Virtual Filesystem
The aisles of your supermarket
Your shopping cart The Resource Assembly Tool
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Resource Assembly Tool
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Search

• Statics metadata Dublin Core, cross-walk to IMS
• Dynamic metadata use assembly data for
  recommender system

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Interface internationalized, multilingual content
enabled
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LON-CAPA

• Learning Content Management System
• Assessment System
• Open-Source and Free

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LON-CAPAs 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

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• Same problem, two students

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Feedback to Instructor
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Problem Analysis
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Feedback to Instructor
One Homework Set
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Peer-Teaching
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Exam Support
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Exam Support
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Exam Support Re-Takes
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Exam Support Re-Takes
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LON-CAPA

• Learning Content Management System
• Assessment System
• Open-Source and Free

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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

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Open Source

• Code contributions by
• Florida State University
• Ohio University
• Simon Fraser University Vancouver
• Hebrew University Jerusalem
• UNICAMP São Paulo
• Nagoya University

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LON-CAPA

• Does it work?

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Effectiveness
LON-CAPA is a tool, not a curriculum. Effectivenes
s depends on how it is used.
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Time on Task 10,000 students
x5
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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

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Before/After Time-On-Task vs. Perceived
Helpfulness
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Formative vs. Summative
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Formative vs. Summative
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Exam and Course Grades
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Gender Differential

• phy231 traditional
• phy232 CAPA

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Award Winning

• 2003 ComputerWorld Honors Award
• Judged best IT application in the world in
  Education and Academia

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Award Winning

• 2004 Sloan-C Most Outstanding Effective Practice
  Award
• Effective Feedback to the Instructor form Online
  Homework

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LON-CAPA

• Whats Next?

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eduCog, LLC

• Part of original sustainability plan in NSF
  proposal
• Follow-up company
• NSF we love commercialization
• Service company providing
• hosting
• problem coding
• training and support

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eduCog, LLC
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LON-CAPA Consortium

• Non-Commercial consortium of universities and
  colleges
• Governing body for LON-CAPA development
• Long-term commitments from partnering
  institutions
• Working on it ...

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New Functionality

• In-Class Use of LON-CAPA
• Partnering with Harvard (Mazur group) on using
  LON-CAPA as next generation clickers

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New Functionality
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New Functionality

• Even more exam support for small courses
• In-class scanning stations
• PDAs

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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