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What’s New in LON-CAPA?

Learn about the latest organizational structures, commercial ventures, consortium developments, and content assembly features in LON-CAPA. Explore improved communication tools, portfolio capabilities, and innovative grading options in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Computer Science. Discover the automated course generation and enrollment processes, along with the cross-institutional network expansion. Stay updated on the dynamic offerings for users across various educational disciplines. Contact Gerd Kortemeyer for further information.

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What’s New in LON-CAPA?

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  1. What’s New in LON-CAPA? Gerd Kortemeyer January 2006

  2. What’s New in LON-CAPA? • New organizational structures • Commercial business • Consortium • Outlook • Next Generation Clickers • New functionality • Content assembly • Course overview • Communication • Portfolio • Grading • Mathematics, Chemistry, and Computer Science • New@MSU • Users, courses, and disciplines • Automated course generation • Automated enrollment • Single-sign-on

  3. Content Assembly • Cross-institutional network • 41 colleges and universities • 31 middle and high schools

  4. 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

  5. Content Assembly Sorted by access count

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

  7. Content Assembly • Recognizes file dependencies when uploading files from your local computer

  8. Content Assembly

  9. Course Overview

  10. Communication • Tighter coupling between messages and course • Messages tied to resource and course

  11. Communication • We always had

  12. Communication • Now included direct jumps to take action in response to messages

  13. Portfolio • Every user has portfolio space

  14. Portfolio • Files from portfolio can be turned in for projects • Versionmanage-ment

  15. Grading • New grading and review queues for manually graded assignments • Course staff in different roles working through submitted work

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

  17. Chemistry

  18. Computer Science • Bridge Tasks for CSE 101 • Management and scheduling of tasks • Time-and-place slots • Project assignments with artifacts graded on multiple dimensions • Coupled with portfolio space

  19. LON-CAPA@MSU • LON-CAPA and predecessor systems CAPA and LectureOnline used at MSU since 1992

  20. Users

  21. Courses

  22. Disciplines

  23. Automated Course Generation • http://loncapa.msu.edu/

  24. Automated Enrollment

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

  26. Commercial Business • eduCog, LLC • Founded in 2005 • Provides LON-CAPA hosting and problem coding

  27. Consortium • LON-CAPA Academic Consortium • MSU and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign founding members • Consortium document just passed legal review at both institutions • Documents will hopefully be signed this year

  28. Outlook • In-Class use of LON-CAPA • Collaboration with Mazur group at Harvard • “Next Generation Clickers” • Already ported ConcepTest questions

  29. Contact • Project website:http://www.lon-capa.org/ • LON-CAPA@MSU: http://loncapa.msu.edu/ • Gerd Kortemeyer:korte@lon-capa.org

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