The LearningOnline Network with ComputerAssisted Personalized Approach LONCAPA

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The LearningOnline Network with Computer-Assisted
Personalized Approach(LON-CAPA)
Gerd Kortemeyer Wolfgang Bauer 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 complete course management system to readily
  deploy this content

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BottomVirtual Filesystem
The aisles of your supermarket
Your shopping cart The Resource Assembly Tool
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Middle Resource Assembly Tool
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Top Complete Course Management System

• Course Navigation Tools
• Communication features (discussion, thread)
• Announcements
• Portfolio space
• Homework, Exams (online/offline)

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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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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

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Feedback to Instructor
One Homework Set
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Feedback to Instructor
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Problem Analysis
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Formative Assessment Peer-Teaching
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Summative Assessment
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Summative Assessment
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Turning Summative into Formative
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Turning Summative into Formative
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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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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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LON-CAPA

• Whats Next?

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Formative Assessment in Class

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

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Formative Assessment in Class
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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