LONCAPA at Ohio University

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LON-CAPA at Ohio University

• People
• Mark Lucas - Physics
• David Ingram Physics
• Tom Stork Athens HS, Physics
• Matthew Phillips Chemistry
• Prasenjit Sarkar Comp Sci Undergrad
• Nick Malise Math Education Undergrad

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Status and Usage

• Status
• All Physics Service Courses on LON-CAPA
• Chemistry working towards Fall 2004
• 23/29 Physics faculty have used LON-CAPA
• 11 reasonably proficient 3 or 4 very proficient
• Usage
• Classic Homework
• Astro 100 2/3 subjective answer daily
• Posting materials
• BSU Collaboration Proposal
• Contest Proposal

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Status Hardware

• 3 Dual Pentium IV 2.0GHz Dell 2650s
• 1 library, 2 access
• 4th spare about to come online, though not
  absolutely necessary

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Transition - History
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Issues

• Really pretty smooth
• Got campus authentication in just in time
• Small student problems (unfortunately still time
  consuming)
• Faculty training concept of publication
• Getting grades out
• Have to be more careful about down time
• Search down machines can be a problem
• Library maintenance
• Early used import and converted lots of numerical
  problems
• Changing form slightly (removing import, using
  style files)

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Libraries

• Serway lib (5th Edition) Converted from CAPA
• Cutnell From TT
• Tipler Converted from CAPA
• OUp200lib, OUp250lib, OUpsclib
• Physlets
• OUchemlib in process

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Libraries

• Want to compile OUphyslib
• Well-coded sig figs, units, appropriate hints
• Good metadata
• Keep directories well-labelled and easily
  traversed
• Sequences for easy viewing
• PDF of example sequences
• Figure library with editable formats?
• Caveats
• When library created, structure defined very
  early
• Modifying and testing full library for small
  changes painful

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Future

• Develop new materials
• OUphyslib
• Get Chemistry going
• Reach out to wider campus
• CCLI or other sources for material development
• Implement new autoenroll
• Look into possible integration with in-class
  response systems
• Explore Outreach possibilities

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