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with ConcepTests for chemistry, astronomy, and calculus courses. We are currently in the process of
adding this material to the ILT web site.
-Under NSF sponsorship, we developed Project Galileo, a store of extensive resources for
-interactive learning pedagogies, targeting both large and small classroom teaching techniques, which are
-available to the entire teaching community. Using funds from a NSF Director's Distinguished Teaching
-Scholar Award, we created the Interactive Learning Toolkit, a learning management system that allows
-instructors to implement several proven innovative teaching techniques and to share and review materials
-they create for these techniques. The ILT is currently in use at a number of institutions nationwide,
-including Vanderbilt, University of Southern California, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Salem State
-College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Swarthmore College, with a student user base of several
-thousand students per semester.
-
In LON-CAPA, the underlying distributed multimedia content repository spans across all of the currently over 30 participating institutions, and currently contains over 60,000 learning content resources, including more than 18,000 personalized homework problems. Disciplines include astronomy, biology, business, chemistry, civil engineering, computer science, family and child ecology, geology, human food and nutrition, human medicine, mathematics, medical technology, physics, and psychology. Any content material contributed to the pool is immediately available and ready-to-use within the system at all participating sites, thus facilitating dissemination of curricular development efforts. A large fraction of these resources are also available through the gateway to the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).
@@ -398,7 +388,6 @@
Between the collaborators, a number of technological components exist that can be used to build the foundation for the needed functionality.
\subsubsection{Interactive Learning Toolkit (ILT)}
-
The Interactive Learning Toolkit is an open-source learning management system that supports research-based interactive
learning pedagogies, like Just In Time Teaching and Peer Instruction. The ILT development group is located at Harvard
University.
@@ -450,7 +439,7 @@
Refs.~\cite{features,edutools} for an overview of features, and comparisons to other systems.
In addition to standard features, the LON-CAPA delivery and course management layer is designed around STEM education, for example: support for mathematical typesetting throughout (\LaTeX\ inside of XML) -- formulas are rendered on-the-fly, and can be algorithmically modified through the use of variables inside formulas; integrated GNUplot support, such that graphs can be rendered on-the-fly, and allowing additional layered labeling of graphs and images; support for multi-dimensional symbolic math answers; and full support of physical units.
-
+An important feature of LON-CAPA for this study is its scalability and ability to absorb peak-workloads through cluster-wide load balancing. On campus of MSU, LON-CAPA has been used for timed online ``take-home'' exams by 400 students submitting 50 questions each within one hour.
\subsection{Resource-Pool Organization}
The ConcepTest library will be ported to the LON-CAPA system and stored in the shared resource pool of the LearningOnline Network with CAPA (subsection~\ref{loncapa}), which
offers scalable cross-institutional content and rights management features. Where appropriate, gateways will be established to have different system components access the same
@@ -478,12 +467,10 @@
In parallel, the CT library will be transfered to the LON-CAPA network as described above. The user interface for CT browsing and lecture integration in the LT3 will remain
unchanged. The LT3 will be enabled to search the LON-CAPA CT resource pool and to render a static or randomized version into the LT3 environment. This will enable the LT3 as
-well as the LON-CAPA community to access the most recent version of each ConceptTest and allows them to track any changes which have been made by the individual authors. This
-integration step will enable us to carry out the proposed study with a minimum of logistical or technological challenges caused by the involvement of three different
-institutions. The specific architecture of this integration step are currently discussed. Both, the LON-CAPA and the ILT/BQ development team agree that such an integration
-will be possible.
+well as the LON-CAPA community to access the most recent version of each ConcepTest, as well as to track any changes which have been made by the individual authors. The common content pool
+allows us to
+carry out the proposed study with a minimum of logistical or technological challenges caused by the involvement of three different
-An important feature of LON-CAPA for this study is its scalability and ability to absorb peak-workloads through cluster-wide load balancing. On campus of MSU, LON-CAPA has been used for timed online ``take-home'' exams by 400 students submitting 50 questions each within one hour.
\subsection{Materials Development}
For a representative set of ConcepTests, different question types (Fig.~\ref{repre}) and randomizing versions (Fig.~\ref{rando}) will be developed and tested.
In addition, Physlets~\cite{physlets} will be incorporated into the LON-CAPA content pool, and questions developed around them.
@@ -497,7 +484,7 @@
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
-\includegraphics[width=2.5in]{seatfig.eps}
+\includegraphics[width=2.2in]{seatfig.eps}
\caption{Computer-guided group formation.\label{formation}
}
\end{center}
@@ -529,7 +516,7 @@
\begin{itemize}
\item Physics department colloquia at a wide range of institutions from large state universities to small
liberal arts colleges and community colleges;
-\item Workshops for new faculty sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the NSFfunded
+\item Workshops for new faculty sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the NSF-funded
Engineering Education Scholars program
\end{itemize}
We will present papers at conferences such as the LON-CAPA User Conference, IEEE Frontiers in Education, Educause/NLII, Sloan C, the European Workshop for Multimedia in Physics Education, the Conference on Computer Based Learning in Science (Dr. Kortemeyer presented at these conferences before), the annual meetings of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and the Gesellschaft f\"ur Didaktik der Chemie und
@@ -600,7 +587,7 @@
The Harvard and Erskine development group will work with the MSU group to extend the integration to make randomization possible in both systems. In turn, all teams
work together to implement a seating map within the LON-CAPA framework. This will complete the system integration.
The system integration carried out in Year 1 will be tested and used to collect data as described in
-table ... In addition, student helpers will again ``listen in'' peer discussion. A first comparative study will be carried out and analysed in cooperation with
+Section~\ref{method}. In addition, student helpers will again ``listen in'' peer discussion. A first comparative study will be carried out and analysed in cooperation with
the education PIs.
\subsection{Year 3}
@@ -608,11 +595,6 @@
All three groups collect data as described in Section~\ref{method}. The comparative study will be completed and analyzed in cooperation with the education PIs. The results will
be disseminated through publications and talks.
-\section{Responsibilites of the PIs}
-
-Dr.~Kortemeyer is an Assistant Professor of Physics Education and the Director of the LON-CAPA Project at Michigan State University. He will be teaching the courses under investigation at MSU and direct the project staff on this project.
-Guy Albertelli is an Academic Specialist in the Division of Science and Mathematics Education at Michigan State University. He is the Technical Director of the LON-CAPA project and responsible for implementation details of the proposed project.
-
\section{Results from Prior NSF Support}\label{results}
Gerd Kortemeyer is PI on the current NSF-ITR grant Investigation of a Model for Online Resource Creation and Sharing in Educational Settings (\#0085921, \$2,055,000, September 15, 2000 through July 31, 2005), which uses LON-CAPA as its model system.
The project developed into a content sharing network of more than 15 institutions of higher education including community colleges and four-year institutions, as well as over 15 middle and high schools. In addition, LON-CAPA houses commercial textbook content from seven major publishing companies, and a commercial service company was established around the product at the end of 2004. The project maintains a gateway server to the National Science Digital Library, and the LON-CAPA shared resource pool is searchable and accessible from {\tt http://nsdl.org/}.
@@ -640,6 +622,9 @@
Teaching With Peer Instruction
Amount: \$305,000
Dates: 9/15/01 - 8/31/05
+
+Under NSF sponsorship, we developed Project Galileo, a store of extensive resources forinteractive learning pedagogies, targeting both large and small classroom teaching techniques, which areavailable to the entire teaching community. Using funds from a NSF Director's Distinguished TeachingScholar Award, we created the Interactive Learning Toolkit, a learning management system that allowsinstructors to implement several proven innovative teaching techniques and to share and review materialsthey create for these techniques. The ILT is currently in use at a number of institutions nationwide,including Vanderbilt, University of Southern California, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Salem StateCollege, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Swarthmore College, with a student user base of severalthousand students per semester.
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