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LON-CAPA: A Personalized Learning Network with Computer-Assisted Approach

LON-CAPA is an open-source and free Learning Content Management System and Assessment System. It provides a cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary content repository and a complete course management system. LON-CAPA offers online assessments with immediate adaptive feedback, different versions of problems for different students, and formative and summative assessment capabilities.

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LON-CAPA: A Personalized Learning Network with Computer-Assisted Approach

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  1. The LearningOnline Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach(LON-CAPA) Gerd Kortemeyer Wolfgang Bauer 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” Your shopping cart: The Resource Assembly Tool

  7. Middle: Resource Assembly Tool

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

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

  10. 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

  11. Same problem, two students

  12. 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

  13. Feedback to Instructor One Homework Set

  14. Feedback to Instructor

  15. Problem Analysis

  16. Formative Assessment: Peer-Teaching

  17. Summative Assessment

  18. Summative Assessment

  19. Turning Summative into Formative

  20. Turning Summative into Formative

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

  22. 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

  23. LON-CAPA Does it work?

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

  25. Time on Task: 10,000 students x5

  26. 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

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

  28. Formative vs. Summative

  29. Formative vs. Summative

  30. Exam and Course Grades

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

  32. LON-CAPA What’s Next?

  33. Formative Assessment in Class • In-Class Use of LON-CAPA • Partnering with Harvard (Mazur group) on using LON-CAPA as next generation “clickers”

  34. Formative Assessment in Class

  35. 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

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