Instructor Student Interactions

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Instructor Student Interactions
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The Learning Online Network with Computer
Assisted Personalized Approach
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The Problem
A Learning Content Management and Assessment
System with a Learning Object Repository Network
and Content Creation and Assembly Tools.
LON-CAPA

• Its FREE

• A Community of Educators and Developers

http//www.lon-capa.org
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Sign-in
Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach
Interactive Homework/Quizzes/Exams Assessment
LON Shared Inter-institutional Learning Object
Repository Authoring/publishing

• Assembly of resources into course sequence
• Course management Study management
• Stats and Eval -- Course/Student/Resource/System
• Communication and Feedback

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Roles
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Nav Chem122
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Remote Functions
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Learning On-line Network
Resource Space
Resource Assembly Tool
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The Dump
scavenging in THE D.U.M.P.
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Feedback and Discussion
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LON-CAPA
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VSEPR
VSEPR Theory
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Click on Image
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LON-CAPA
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lnK vs 1/T
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lnK vs 1/T Question
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Printouts
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General Chem Dec 2003
LON-CAPA

• On-lineSurvey
• In-classSurvey

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General Chem Dec 2003
LON-CAPA

• On-lineSurvey
• In-classSurvey

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Benefits
CAPA

• Automatic grading
• Individualized questions -- no copying
• Immediate, contextual feedback and multiple
  attempts --Students rework problem until they get
  it.
• Can monitor and assess student or class progress
  at any time in fine detail (everything
  stored/logged)
• Asynchronous whole-class discussions of
  individual resources (threaded or chronological)
  students helping students.
• More (Ill have mine super-sized)

Thousands servedopen 24 hours.
cHomework
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If you could change one thing about the LONCAPA
homework, what would that be?
LON-CAPA
General Student Comments 70 very favorable
25 neutral 5 unfavorable

• 30 would change very little or nothing.
• 25 easier questions / more like the exams
• 15 more hints, conditional hints, text refs
• 10 more tries
• 7 change due dates in some way
• 5 browser issues
• 4 no multi-part, single-submission questions
• 3 more marks/effort

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Survey of Gen Chem Students Dec 2003
LON-CAPA

• On-lineSurvey
• In-classSurvey

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General Chem Dec 2003
LON-CAPA

• On-lineSurvey
• In-classSurvey

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General Chem Dec 2003
LON-CAPA

• On-lineSurvey
• In-classSurvey

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General Chem Dec 2003
LON-CAPA

• On-lineSurvey
• In-classSurvey
• Actual Stats

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Hardware and Support
LON-CAPA

• Library Server Purchased May 2001, dual 1GHz
  IBM
• http//dalton.chem.sfu.ca Netfinity x340,
  1 GB RAM, 3x18.2 GB Raid
• 2 Access Servers Purchased March 2003, each
  dual 2.4 GHz lewis and nernst
  Xeon cpus, 4 GB RAM, 1x120 GB Drive
• Chemistry Servers housed in ACS main vault and
  fully supported.
• Martin Siegert Systems Administrator, Research
  Computing
• SFU
  Academic Computing Services (ACS)

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Credits
CAPA
LON-CAPA

• Ralph Korteling
• John DAuria
• Derek Sutton
• Ross Hill
• Steve Holdcroft
• Gary Leach
• Andrew Bennet
• Evelyn Palmer
• Noham Weinberg
• Jimmy Low
• J.P. Bravo
• Jennifer Wolf
• Gerardo Diaz
• Sam Yan (Brandon U.)
• Fred Chin
• Ian Courtney
• Mike Lauritzen

• Lee Hanlan
• Sophie Lavieri
• Ken MacFarlane
• R. Dev Sharma
• Zuo-Guang Ye
• Julie Lunniss
• Khashayar Ghandi
• Uwe Kreis
• Jason Clyburne
• Michael Eikerling
• Paul Percival
• Garry Mund
• Monica Szczepina
• Martin Siegert (ACS)

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Finis
but wait!
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What parts of the LON-CAPA anatomy have I not
(yet) covered?

• Grading

• Enrollment

• Authentication

• Communication Feedback -- Email

• Monitoring Collective and Individual Progress
• Submissions, Statistics Charts

• Tools for Content-Creation, Authoring Publishing

• Peer review and Quality Control

• Network-wide, Resource Usage Stats and
  Evaluations