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
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Content pages: 38,308
Problems: 52,592
Images: 49,340
Content assemblies: 6,643
Animations: 700
Movies: 500
Simulations: 400
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Release 2.0
• Released August 2005
• Significant speedups and better caching
• Several functionality enhancements
2.0: Course Overview
2.0: Content Assembly
2.0: Content Assembly
• Recognizes file
dependencies when
uploading files from
your local computer
2.0: Mathematics
<m>\[4y^2+\sqrt{\frac{2x^2+3x+4}{1-x^2}}\]</m>
2.0
• <chem>, <algebra>, <num> and <parse>
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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
2.1: Content Assembly
Sorted by
access count
2.1: Content Assembly
• Newly establish bi-directional link to NSF
National Science Digital Library
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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
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<externalresponse>
<customresponse>
Bridgetask slot management
IMS Import BlackBoard 6
MSU Support
• Course Request System
MSU Support
MSU: Usability Testing
• Collaboration with MSU
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Usability Lab
Testing LON-CAPA
Usability for
 Students
 Course Coordinators
 Authors
• Student study complete
• Course Coordinator study
in progress
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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 LONCAPA for
 2 universities
 32 schools
 6 publishers
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Consortium
• LON-CAPA Academic
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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:
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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
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Outlook: Functionality
• Integration of symbolic algebra system
• Currently testing Maxima
• Collaboration with University of Applied
Sciences at Wolfenbüttel, Germany
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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
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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 SingleSign-On at MSU
• LON-CAPA will work with Shibboleth at
Ohio University
Outlook: Workshop
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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 UrbanaChampaign
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