LON-CAPA 1 The LearningOnline Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach (LON-CAPA) Stuart Raeburn Michigan State University

LON-CAPA 2 Learning Content Management System Course Management System Open-Source and Free

LON-CAPA 3 Learning Content Management System Course Management System Open-Source and Free

LON-CAPA 4 LearningOnline Network Providing high quality learning content in an online environment is time and cost intensive Typical scenario today: Online material is developed by only one instructor Online material is used by only one instructor Online material is used in only one course No assessment of learning effectiveness In-effective use of time and resources

LON-CAPA 5 LearningOnline Network Much better scenario: Online material is developed and reviewed by more than one instructor Online material is shared among instructors Online material gets used across many courses and disciplines Continual assessment of learning effectiveness

LON-CAPA 6 LearningOnline Network We have built: a cross-institutional cross-disciplinary content repository a tool to seamlessly assemble this content a course management system to readily deploy this content

LON-CAPA 7 LearningOnline Network Writes module on statistical averages Writes module on statistical errors Includes the two into her unit on survey analysis Uses that unit in his course

LON-CAPA 8 LearningOnline Network Currently used at 3 middle schools, 16 high schools, and 16 colleges and universities nationwide

LON-CAPA 9 Licensing Authors keep copyright Authors grant right of use private only for own institution (after other instructor selects it) network-wide (after other instructor selects it) public customized: for certain institutions, courses,...

LON-CAPA 10 Network Network of connected servers Any server in the network can serve any resource in the system Content replication in background Network-wide persistent URL paths

LON-CAPA 11 Replication North Dakota State University server serving resource from Michigan State University First time the resource is accessed, it is copied in the background closer to user MSU not stuck with serving the resource will continue to work if connection to MSU down Leaves behind subscription on MSU server When resource updated at MSU, NDSU copy is either updated or deleted, depending on usage pattern

LON-CAPA 12 Virtual Filesystem “The aisles of your supermarket” Your shopping cart: The Resource Assembly Tool

LON-CAPA 13 Resource Assembly Tool

LON-CAPA 14 Search Statics metadata: Dublin Core, cross-walk to IMS Dynamic metadata: use assembly data for recommender system:

LON-CAPA 15 LearningOnline Network

LON-CAPA 16 LearningOnline Network 20,900 content pages 18,600 homework and exam problems 12,500 images 2,100 content assemblies 1,100 simulations and animations 500 movies Publisher libraries, “back of the chapter problems”

LON-CAPA 17 Network Network of connected servers Any server in the network can serve sessions for any user Servers can offload sessions to each other cross-institutionally Scalable

LON-CAPA 18 More Users at MSU x5

LON-CAPA 19 Learning Content Management System Course Management System Open-Source and Free

LON-CAPA 20 Features Standard Features of Course Management System: Syllabus Content Posting Discussions, Chat Homework Management (open dates, deadlines, etc, on per-section or individual basis)

LON-CAPA 21 CAPA Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach Online assessment with immediate feedback and multiple tries Different students get different versions of the same problem different options different graphs or images different numbers or formulas

LON-CAPA 22 CAPA Same problem, two students

LON-CAPA 23 Course Performance

LON-CAPA 24 Problem Analysis

LON-CAPA 25 Exam Support

LON-CAPA 26 Exam Scanning Full support of MSU Scoring Office Project: In-Class Scanning

LON-CAPA 27 Porting of Content

LON-CAPA 28 User Management Automated enrollment from instituional data sources Campus authentication (e.g., Kerberos, LDAP etc.) Full support of multiple sections in one course Roles-based authorization

LON-CAPA 29 Learning Content Management System Course Management System Open-Source and Free

LON-CAPA 30 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

LON-CAPA 31 Open Source Environment Linux operating system, preferably Fedora distribution Apache webserver mod_perl and C server modules, JavaScript client side MySQL data base GNUplot LaTeX

LON-CAPA 32 Open Source Code contributions by Florida State University Ohio University Simon Fraser University Vancouver Hebrew University Jerusalem UNICAMP São Paulo Nagoya University

LON-CAPA including internationalization

LON-CAPA 34 Funding Initially developed at Michigan State University Funded by Michigan State University and the National Science Foundation under ITR Project “Investigation of a model for online resource creation and sharing in educational settings”

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