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Introduction to LON-CAPA
May 13th, 2010Dalhousie University
Gerd KortemeyerMichigan State University
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OverviewLON-CAPA is a system for
• Course Management, for example: posting materials discussions announcements grade book
• Learning Content Management, for example: storing online content for re-usage managing access rights
• Assessment, for example: Homework Tests
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OverviewLON-CAPA is a system for
• Course Management, for example: posting materials discussions announcements grade book
• Learning Content Management, for example: storing online content for re-usage managing access rights
• Assessment, for example: Homework Tests
Many peopleknow LON-CAPA
only for this!
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Overview
• I will start with assessment
• I will then hopefully show you why the other components are useful
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Assessment
• Assessment: Feedback to learners and instructors
• Formative assessment: Students can keep track of their own learning
• Students do not fall behind
Instructors keep track of their students’ learning
• can adapt the teaching to the learning
• Summative assessment: exams Technology allows for frequent exams
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Assessment• Pre-Class Questions
Students being prepared for lecture Just-In-Time Teaching
• In-Class Questions Clickers
• Post-Class Questions Homework Online Discussions, Helprooms Exams
• Does this even work?• How is this realistically possible?
That’s where course and learning content management come in!
Lecture
?
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Students being prepared for lecture
Just-In-Time Teaching
Pre-Class Questions
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Pre-Class Questions
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Pre-Class Questions
• Easy questions embedded into content
• Due before lecture
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Pre-Class Questions
• Make sure students read materials
• Questions can be answered just based on the readings
• Students come prepared
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Just-In-Time
• Adapt lecture to student difficulties
When I looked at your homework this morning, I saw that all of you have understood quantum field theory, but many of you still have problems with long division. So this morning, we will …
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Just-In-Time
Difficult problems
Discussions
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Just-In-Time
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Clickers
In-Class Questions
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Clickers
Doesn’t he get that we don’t get it?
Yawn!That’s clear – no, wait …
Looks like everybody but me understands this!
I wonder what’s for lunch
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Clickers
• RF devices
• One per student
• Students can answer questions during lecture
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Clicker
Lecture progress depends on voting outcome Explain again Go on Let students discuss
and vote again
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Clicker
Peer-Instruction
• Students can sometimes explain concepts better than us to their peers We have forgotten what we initially struggled
with
• Students learn while explaining
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Clicker
• Students register in LON-CAPA
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Clicker
• Give credit for correct and for incorrect answers
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Clicker
• Embedded in course, alongside slides
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Homework
Helprooms
Exams
Post-Class Questions
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More sophisticated highly randomizing problems
Homework
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Homework• …special emphasis on math
including support of• LaTeX• Maxima• R
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Homework• … chemistry …
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Homework• … physical units …
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Online Discussions
DiscussionsEncouraged, since all students have different versions.Again: Peer-Instruction.
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Helprooms
• StaffedwithLearningAssistantsin theevenings
• Collaborative learning space, peer instruction
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Exams• Problems can also be rendered for bubble
sheets
• Each student has a different exam
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Exams
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Exams
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Exams
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… does this even work?
Before we go on …
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Learning Success
• Intro Physics for Scientists and Engineers
• Grades in years before and after online homework
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Learning Success
Mostly helps students who are on the brink of failing the course.
Fail
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How is this realistically possible?
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Sharing of Resources
• Creating online resources is a lot of work
• Doing so for use in just one course is a waste of time and effort
• Many resources could be used among a number of courses and across institutions
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LON-CAPA Architecture
WWW
Campus A
Campus BCampus C
Interserver
Web
Student Computer
InstructorComputer
WWW
Inter-InstitutionalNetwork of Servers Connecting
Universities and Schools
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Campus A Campus B
LON-CAPA Architecture
Shared Cross-Institutional Resource Library
Resource Assembly
Course Management
Resource Assembly
Course Management
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The LON-CAPA Community
Shared content repository with almost 350,000 resources
Almost 150,000 online homework problems
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Resource AssemblyWrites module aboutenergy conservation
Writes module aboutmomentumconservation
Compiles module about conservation laws
Uses wholeassemblyin his course
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The LON-CAPA Community
USA: 108
Canada: 7Germany: 3
Turkey: 1
Israel: 2South Korea: 1
South Africa: 1Brazil: 2
High Schools, Colleges, and Universities
… plus grant projects and publishing companies.
Switzerland: 1
Nigeria: 1
Great Britain: 1
Taiwan: 1
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