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Welcome. LON-CAPA Conference and Workshop May 2006 Michigan State University. Sponsorship. Sponsored by The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michigan State University The National Science Foundation. Participants. Content Assembly. Cross-institutional network:

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  1. Welcome LON-CAPA Conference and Workshop May 2006 Michigan State University

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

  3. Participants

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

  5. 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

  6. Release 2.0 • Released August 2005 • Significant speedups and better caching • Several functionality enhancements

  7. 2.0: Course Overview

  8. 2.0: Content Assembly

  9. 2.0: Content Assembly • Recognizes file dependencies when uploading files from your local computer

  10. 2.0: Mathematics <m>\[4y^2+\sqrt{\frac{2x^2+3x+4}{1-x^2}}\]</m>

  11. 2.0 • <chem>, <algebra>, <num> and <parse> display tags • IMS Import for WebCT 4.0 • IMS Export • Score upload improved • More options for anonymous bubble sheet exams

  12. 2.0 • Submit student portfolio files to assignments

  13. Release 2.1 • Released December 2005 • Several functionality enhancements

  14. 2.1: Content Assembly Sorted by access count

  15. 2.1: Content Assembly • Newly establish bi-directional link to NSF National Science Digital Library

  16. 2.1: Communication • Messages can be sorted by course • Now included direct jumps to take action in response to messages

  17. 2.1 • Direct “switch server” functionality without having to login again • <externalresponse> • <customresponse> • Bridgetask slot management • IMS Import BlackBoard 6

  18. MSU Support • Course Request System

  19. MSU Support

  20. 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

  21. 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

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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

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

  29. Outlook: Functionality • Integration of symbolic algebra system • Currently testing Maxima • Collaboration with University of Applied Sciences at Wolfenbüttel, Germany

  30. Outlook: In-Class Use • With Mazur group at Harvard and Bill Junkin at Erskine Imported, currently being cleaned up

  31. Outlook: Public Portfolio • Set access rights for portfolio content to “public” • Advertise the content

  32. 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

  33. Outlook: Scan into LON-CAPA • Scan exams directly into LON-CAPA … just leaving this in here

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

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

  36. Outlook • 2007 LON-CAPA Conference and Workshop: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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