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LON-CAPA

LON-CAPA. An Open-Source Learning Content Management and Assessment System Gerd Kortemeyer Michigan State University. LON-CAPA Overview. LON-CAPA is free open-source a learning content management system an assessment system around since 1992. Free and Open-Source. Free:

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LON-CAPA

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  1. LON-CAPA An Open-Source Learning Content Management and Assessment System Gerd Kortemeyer Michigan State University

  2. LON-CAPA Overview • LON-CAPA is • free • open-source • a learning content management system • an assessment system • around since 1992

  3. Free and Open-Source • Free: • “Free beer”: no licensing fees • “Free speech”: source code, Bugzilla, mailing lists, research results, all out in the open • Open-source:you can read,modify, improve,adapt, etc, theoriginal code ofthe system • BUT: derivative must be distributed under same license, i.e., GNU General Public License while ($line=<IN>) { chomp($line); $line=~s/\s+$//s; $line=~s/\"//g; $line=~tr/A-Z/a-z/; @entries=split(/\,/,$line); $username=$entries[4]; _

  4. Course Management Course Management Resource Assembly Resource Assembly Shared Cross-Institutional Resource Library LON-CAPA Architecture Campus A Campus B

  5. LON-CAPA Architecture Campus A Campus B Course Management Course Management Resource Assembly Resource Assembly Shared Cross-Institutional Resource Library

  6. Shared Resource Library • The distributed network looks like one big file system

  7. Shared Resource Library • Resources may be web pages …

  8. Shared Resource Library • … or simulations and animations …

  9. Shared Resource Library • … or this kind of randomizing online problems

  10. Shared Resource Library • …special emphasis on math • including support of • LaTeX • Maxima • R

  11. Shared Resource Library • … chemistry …

  12. Shared Resource Library • … physical units …

  13. LON-CAPA Architecture Campus A Campus B Course Management Course Management Resource Assembly Resource Assembly Shared Cross-Institutional Resource Library

  14. Resource Assembly • Shopping Cart “Supermarket”

  15. Resource Assembly • Nested Assemblies • No pre-defined levels of granularity („module“, „chapter“, etc) • People can never agree what those terms mean • Re-use possible on any level

  16. Compiles module about conservation laws Writes module aboutenergy conservation Uses wholeassemblyin his course Writes module aboutmomentumconservation Resource Assembly

  17. LON-CAPA Architecture Campus A Campus B Course Management Course Management Resource Assembly Resource Assembly Shared Cross-Institutional Resource Library

  18. Course Management • Instructors can directly use the assembled material in their courses • navigational tools for students to access the material • grade book • communications • calendar/scheduling • access rights management • portfolio space

  19. Course Management • Course management functionality is superset of course management functionality offered by BlackBoardTM, WebCTTM, and ANGELTM (now all part of BlackboardTM)

  20. Course Management • Courses can be imported into LON-CAPA

  21. Course Management • Integrates well with central IT Authentication Authorization KerberosLDAP Active Directory List of Courses Registrar SentinelShibboleth Verify XML Single Signon XML Portal Photos Token LON-CAPA Import

  22. Course Management • Interface can be translated

  23. Course Management Course Management Resource Assembly Resource Assembly Shared Cross-Institutional Resource Library Dynamic Metadata Campus A Campus B

  24. Dynamic Metadata • Dynamic metadata from usage • Assistance in resource selection („amazon.com“) • Quality control

  25. Research

  26. Research • In spite of being very much a production system, after all based at universities • Over the years, research on … • resource sharing • effectiveness of online homework • online student discussions • gender differences • Not enough time to go into details

  27. Resource Sharing • Online communities of practice • Contributors versus users (institutions)

  28. Online Discussions Discussions Encouraged, since all students have different versions. Peer-Teaching.

  29. Classification • Classification of discussion contributions

  30. Influence of Problem Difficulty • More difficult than 0.6: “more pain, no gain”

  31. Do better students discuss better?

  32. Learning Success Same course, first semester with, second semester without online homework

  33. Learning Success Mostly helps students who are on the brink of failing the course. Fail

  34. Gender Difference • phy231:without LON-CAPA • phy232:with LON-CAPA • Gender difference • But why?

  35. Gender Difference

  36. Gender Difference Resubmission after failed attempt

  37. Community

  38. The LON-CAPA Community Shared content repository with almost 350,000 resources Almost 150,000 online homework problems

  39. The LON-CAPA Community 130 member institutions

  40. The LON-CAPA Community High Schools, Colleges, and Universities Germany: 3 Canada: 6 Turkey: 1 South Korea: 1 USA: 106 Switzerland: 1 Israel: 2 Brazil: 1 South Africa: 1 … plus grant projects and publishing companies.

  41. The Consortium • Out of the 130 member institutions, five form the LON-CAPA Academic Consortium • Three institutions that made long-term financial commitments: • Simon Fraser University • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Michigan State University • Two institutions continually contributing to the code base and development: • Ohio University • University of Applied Science, Wolfenbüttel • Governing board and long-term sustainability

  42. Running LON-CAPA • Running LON-CAPA • Locally • Dedicated Linux server or virtual machine • Hosted • http://www.educog.com/

  43. Thank You! • More information about LON-CAPA can be found athttp://www.lon-capa.org/ Mahalo!

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