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LON-CAPA: Personalized Learning Management System

LON-CAPA is a cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary content repository and course management system that offers a computer-assisted personalized learning approach. It provides a complete solution for learning content management, assessments, and open-source resources.

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LON-CAPA: Personalized Learning Management System

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

  2. LON-CAPA What is LON-CAPA?

  3. LON-CAPA • Learning Content Management System • Assessment System • Open-Source and Free

  4. LON-CAPA • Learning Content Management System • Assessment System • Open-Source and Free

  5. 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

  6. Bottom:Virtual Filesystem “The aisles of your supermarket”

  7. Bottom: Virtual Filesystem • Static metadata: Dublin Core, cross-walk to IMS • Dynamic metadata: use assembly data for recommender system:

  8. LearningOnline Network

  9. Bottom: Virtual Filesystem • Currently links 4 middle schools, 36 high schools, 5 community colleges, and 34 universities • 38,300 content pages • 52,600 homework and exam problems • 49,300 images • 6,600 content assemblies • 1,100 simulations and animations • 500 movies • Publisher libraries, “back of the chapter problems”

  10. Middle: Resource Assembly Tool

  11. Includes the two into her unit on conservation laws Writes module on energy conservation Writes module on momentumconservation Uses that unit in his course LearningOnline Network

  12. Top: Complete Course Management System • Course Navigation Tools • Communication features (discussion, thread) • Announcements • Portfolio space • Homework, Exams (online/offline)

  13. LON-CAPA • Learning Content Management System • Assessment System • Open-Source and Free

  14. LON-CAPA’s 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

  15. Same problem, two students

  16. Focus on Science and Math Combined HTML/LaTeX Source Configurable online rendering: As HTML As Image Using Mathtype fonts Compatible Compatible Configuration Low bandwidth high bandwidth Low bandwidth

  17. Focus on Science and Math Combined HTML/LaTeX Source Print: HTML->LaTeX PDF output

  18. Focus on Science and Math • Symbolic math grading

  19. Focus on Science and Math • Chemical formulas and structures

  20. Focus on Science and Math • Full support of physical units

  21. Focus on Science and Math • Dynamic Graphing

  22. 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 Teaching(reading and problems due before class)

  23. Feedback to Instructor One Homework Set

  24. Feedback to Instructor

  25. Problem Analysis

  26. Formative Assessment: Peer-Teaching

  27. Summative Assessment

  28. Summative Assessment

  29. Turning Summative into Formative

  30. Turning Summative into Formative

  31. LON-CAPA • Learning Content Management System • Assessment System • Open-Source and Free

  32. LON-CAPA • Open-source free software • GNU General Public License • No license fees • Can be modified, extended, improved, adapted ... • Developed by educators for educators

  33. Runs on what? • Runs on Intel or AMD hardware • Approx. 200 concurrent sessions per server • Linux operating system • Standard free distributions: Fedora, SUSE • Enterprise versions:Redhat Enterprise Server • No additional database, etc, needed

  34. LON-CAPA Does it work?

  35. Effectiveness LON-CAPA is a tool, not a curriculum. Effectiveness depends on how it is used.

  36. Time on Task: 10,000 students x5

  37. 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 • Approx 30,000 students systemwide

  38. Before/After Time-On-Task vs. Perceived Helpfulness

  39. Formative vs. Summative

  40. Formative vs. Summative

  41. Exam and Course Grades

  42. Gender Differential • phy231: traditional • phy232: CAPA

  43. LON-CAPA What’s Next?

  44. Formative Assessment in Class • In-Class Use of LON-CAPA • Partnering with Harvard (Mazur group) and Erskine (Junkin) on next generation “clickers”

  45. done Formative Assessment in Class

  46. Integration of Computer Algebra System • LON-CAPA can already deal with multidimensional symbolic expressions through sampling • Integration of Computer Algebra System will allow more flexibility • Working with University of Applied Sciences at Wolfenbüttel, Germany, on integration of Maxima CAS

  47. LON-CAPA Academic Consortium • Founding partners: Michigan State University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Each institution commits $2M/year of five years toward further development and support

  48. Current Funding • Initially developed at Michigan State University • Additional funding of CAPA by Sloan and Mellon Foundations • Today funded by Michigan State University, partner universities, publisher and service contracts, and the National Science Foundation within the ITR and CCLI-ASA programs

  49. Project Website:http://www.lon-capa.org/Gerd Kortemeyerkorte@lon-capa.org

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