LONCAPA Conference and Workshop

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Welcome

• LON-CAPA Conference and Workshop
• May 2006
• Michigan State University

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Sponsorship

• Sponsored by
• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Michigan State University
• The National Science Foundation

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Participants
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Content Assembly

• Cross-institutional network
• 40 colleges and universities
• 40 middle and high schools
• 6 publishers
• Approx. double compared to last year

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Content Assembly

• Total holdings (Fall 2005) 148,483 resources
• Content pages 38,308
• Problems 52,592
• Images 49,340
• Content assemblies 6,643
• Animations 700
• Movies 500
• Simulations 400

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Release 2.0

• Released August 2005
• Significant speedups and better caching
• Several functionality enhancements

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2.0 Course Overview
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2.0 Content Assembly
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2.0 Content Assembly

• Recognizes file dependencies when uploading files
  from your local computer

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2.0 Mathematics
ltmgt\4y2\sqrt\frac2x23x41-x2\lt/mgt
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2.0

• ltchemgt, ltalgebragt, ltnumgt and ltparsegt display tags
• IMS Import for WebCT 4.0
• IMS Export
• Score upload improved
• More options for anonymous bubble sheet exams

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2.0

• Submit student portfolio files to assignments

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Release 2.1

• Released December 2005
• Several functionality enhancements

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2.1 Content Assembly
Sorted by access count
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2.1 Content Assembly

• Newly establish bi-directional link to NSF
  National Science Digital Library

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2.1 Communication

• Messages can be sorted by course
• Now included direct jumps to take action in
  response to messages

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2.1

• Direct switch server functionality without
  having to login again
• ltexternalresponsegt
• ltcustomresponsegt
• Bridgetask slot management
• IMS Import BlackBoard 6

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MSU Support

• Course Request System

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MSU Support
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MSU Usability Testing

• Collaboration with MSU Usability Lab
• Testing LON-CAPA Usability for
• Students
• Course Coordinators
• Authors
• Student study complete
• Course Coordinator study in progress

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NSF ITR Sunset

• NSF ITR project is in no-cost extension
• Ends in August 2006
• Sustainability through two follow-up
  organizations
• Commercial business eduCog, LLC
• LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

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Commercial Business

• eduCog, LLC
• Founded in 2005
• Today hosting LON-CAPA for
• 2 universities
• 32 schools
• 6 publishers

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Consortium

• LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
• Michigan State University and the University of
  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign founding members
• Documents received legal signatures in April and
  May 2006, respectively

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Consortium

• MSU and UIUC committed 200k/year for 5 years
  toward LON-CAPA project
• 2M for 5 years, same amount as ITR grant (but
  without overhead)
• Funds are in-kind, i.e., provide personnel and
  other services and resources toward project

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Consortium

• Consortium has a board that governs and
  coordinates
• Future directions of the project
• Major functionality changes
• Content cluster membership
• Consortium membership
• Annual conferences and workshops
• Policy issues
• Public relations
• Financial development and grant-making

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Consortium

• Core members 200k/year for five years, one
  full-time programmer four votes on board
• Sustaining members 125k/year for five years
  two votes on board
• Associate members 50k/year for three years one
  vote on board

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Consortium

• Things that can count toward membership
• Programmer salaries (at least 25 appointed
  toward project)
• Support staff
• Documentation efforts
• Major content development efforts
• Conference sponsorship

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Outlook

• Hoping to increase both cluster and consortium
  membership
• Start collaborations with other educational
  content sharing projects, for example the German
  CampusContent Project

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Outlook Functionality

• Integration of symbolic algebra system
• Currently testing Maxima
• Collaboration with University of Applied Sciences
  at Wolfenbüttel, Germany

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Outlook In-Class Use

• With Mazur group at Harvard and Bill Junkin at
  Erskine

Imported, currently being cleaned up
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Outlook Public Portfolio

• Set access rights for portfolio content to
  public
• Advertise the content

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Outlook RSS, Podcasts, Calendars

• Download due dates, etc, into iCalendar on PDAs,
  etc.
• Announcements on RSS
• Podcasting of portfolio items, published
  documents, lecture video, etc.
• Mobile learning

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Outlook Scan into LON-CAPA

• Scan exams directly into LON-CAPA

just leaving this in here
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Outlook Single-Sign-On

• LON-CAPA will work with Sentinel Single-Sign-On
  at MSU
• LON-CAPA will work with Shibboleth at Ohio
  University

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Outlook Workshop

• LON-CAPA Summer Workshop
• June 19th-22nd, 2006
• Michigan State University
• Register online NOW at lon-capa.org

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Outlook

• 2007 LON-CAPA Conference and Workshop University
  of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign