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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 Recognizes file dependencies when uploading files from your local computer

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

11 2.0,, and 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 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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