[LON-CAPA-users] Presenting Lon-Capa on IPS conference next week

[Harding, Gene L]

Hi Itay,

What I normally say, and plan to say at a LON-CAPA workshop this April at the IL-IN ASEE conference, is that I have never seen or heard of an LMS that can even approach the problem-generating capabilities of LON-CAPA. That is absolutely true, but leaves the door open for someone to enlighten me. (No one has yet.)

Before LON-CAPA I used Blackboard Vista. It was BB's transition to Learn, in which they dropped some of the most important aspects of what was a meager problem-generation capability, that led to my introduction to LON-CAPA. Purdue uses Brightspace (formerly D2L, I think) now, but I have not explored its problem-generating capacity. If you learn of a recent LMS comparison, please let me know.

BR,

Gene L. Harding, PE
Associate Professor of ECET

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Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Presenting Lon-Capa on IPS conference next week

Hi

Next week (Monday) I will do a short demonstration of Lon-Capa (LC) on the Israel Physical Society annual conference.
I got 15 minutes in the Physics Education session.
The backbone of the presentation would be showcasing 2-3 problems that demonstrate the strong problem-engine of Lon-Capa.  I anticipate there might be questions from the audience asking to compare LC to other systems (I have some experience only with moodle).

So I wonder if any of you could help me with these questions?


  1.  Do you know of any recent and published comparison of Lon-Capa (LC) with other LMS's?
  2.  In particular: LC vs.  WebWork and/or Stack?
  3.  Can I reasonably claim that LC has (one of) the strongest problem-engine(s) in the market?
  4.  If you believe the answer for 3 is 'yes' : what would be the supporting evidence.
Thank you in advance.
You are welcome to reply in private if you prefer.

Itay
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