what’s new in lon-capa?
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What’s New in LON-CAPA?. Gerd Kortemeyer January 2006. What’s New in LON-CAPA?. New organizational structures Commercial business Consortium Outlook Next Generation Clickers. New functionality Content assembly Course overview Communication Portfolio Grading - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What’s New in LON-CAPA?• New functionality
Content assembly Course overview Communication Portfolio Grading Mathematics, Chemistry, and
Computer Science• New@MSU
Users, courses, and disciplines Automated course generation Automated enrollment Single-sign-on
• New organizational structures Commercial
business Consortium
• Outlook Next Generation
Clickers
Content Assembly
• Cross-institutional network
• 41 colleges and universities
• 31 middle and high schools
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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
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Content Assembly
• Newly establish bi-directional link to NSF National Science Digital Library
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Grading
• New grading and review queues for manually graded assignments
• Course staff in different roles working through submitted work
Computer Science
• Bridge Tasks for CSE 101• Management and scheduling of tasks• Time-and-place slots• Project assignments with artifacts graded
on multiple dimensions• Coupled with portfolio space
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Single-Sign-On
• LON-CAPA will work with Sentinel Single-Sign-On at MSU
• LON-CAPA will work with Shibboleth at Ohio University
Commercial Business
• eduCog, LLC• Founded in 2005• Provides LON-
CAPA hosting and problem coding
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Consortium
• LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
• MSU and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign founding members
• Consortium document just passed legal review at both institutions
• Documents will hopefully be signed this year
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Outlook
• In-Class use of LON-CAPA
• Collaboration with Mazur group at Harvard
• “Next Generation Clickers”
• Already ported ConcepTest questions
Contact
• Project website:http://www.lon-capa.org/
• LON-CAPA@MSU: http://loncapa.msu.edu/
• Gerd Kortemeyer:[email protected]