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

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: 40 colleges and

universities 40 middle and high

schools 6 publishers

• Approx. double compared to last year

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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





Release 2.0

• Released August 2005

• Significant speedups and better caching

• Several functionality enhancements

2.0: Course Overview

2.0: Content Assembly


• Recognizes file dependencies when uploading files from your local computer

2.0: Mathematics

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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

2.0

• Submit student portfolio files to assignments

Release 2.1

• Released December 2005

• Several functionality enhancements


Sorted by access count


• Newly establish bi-directional link to NSF National Science Digital Library





2.1: Communication

• Messages can be sorted by course

• Now included direct jumps to take action in response to messages

2.1

• Direct “switch server” functionality without having to login again

• <externalresponse>

• <customresponse>

• Bridgetask slot management

• IMS Import BlackBoard 6

MSU Support

• Course Request System

MSU Support

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









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

Commercial Business

• eduCog, LLC• Founded in 2005• Today hosting LON-

CAPA for 2 universities 32 schools 6 publishers





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

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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

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

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

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

Outlook

• Hoping to increase both cluster and consortium membership

• Start collaborations with other educational content sharing projects, for example the German CampusContent Project


Outlook: Functionality

• Integration of symbolic algebra system

• Currently testing Maxima

• Collaboration with University of Applied Sciences at Wolfenbüttel, Germany


Outlook: In-Class Use

• With Mazur group at Harvard and Bill Junkin at Erskine

Imported, currently being cleaned up

Outlook: Public Portfolio

• Set access rights for portfolio content to “public”

• Advertise the content

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





Outlook: Scan into LON-CAPA

• Scan exams directly into LON-CAPA









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Outlook: Single-Sign-On

• LON-CAPA will work with Sentinel Single-Sign-On at MSU

• LON-CAPA will work with Shibboleth at Ohio University

Outlook: Workshop

• LON-CAPA Summer Workshop

• June 19th-22nd, 2006

• Michigan State University

• Register online NOW at lon-capa.org

Outlook

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





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

Documents

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