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25th Anniversary 25 years of LON-CAPA, 25 years at MSU The beginning of the MSU Fall Semester 2017, September 2nd to be exact, is LON-CAPA's 25th anniversary! That's quite a while back, and happened to coincide with MSU switching to a semester system, as this excerpt from the Green Book shows: 1992 CAPA (a Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach) is piloted in a physics class of 92 students, using paper printouts and Telnet to serve and grade personalized homework Multimedia Physics gets started with an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow award, using SuperCard for electronic, interactive course materials 1993 Multimedia Physics receives NSF ILI award 1994 CAPA starts getting adopted at other colleges and universities 1995 CAPA used at over 40 institutions CAPA receives Sloan Foundation funding 1996 Multimedia Physics courses published on CD 6000 students on campus of MSU use CAPA CAPA receives Sloan Foundation and Department of Agriculture funding 1997 CAPA Version 4.5 released Best Paper Award at IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference for "Using Networked Tools to Enhance Student Success Rates in Large Classes" HTML version of MultiMedia Physics published in Germany ("cliXX Physik") HHMI grant to MSU for First Year Online, using LectureOnline Presentation to US Congress during NSF showcase event LectureOnline started as a web application to run online and blended courses, share course materials, and provide online homework First publisher problems in CAPA First external institutions join LectureOnline 1998 Introductory physics courses PHY 231 and PHY 232 are online as virtual university courses in LectureOnline Best Paper Award at IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference for "Multimedia Collaborative Content Creation (mc³)" Ben Dasher Award for "Using Networked Tools to Promote Student Success in Large Classes" CAPA receives Sloan Foundation funding 1999 CAPA used at over 70 institutions ASEE William Elgin Wickenden Award for "Using Networked Tools to Promote Student Success in Large Classes" CAPA receives Mellon Foundation funding CAPA and LectureOnline join efforts to create LON-CAPA Decision on distributed network infrastructure for LON-CAPA Decision to implement the majority of LON-CAPA in Perl 2000 Best Paper Award at IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference for "Teaching with ALN Technology: Benefits and Costs" NSF Information Technology Grant, "Investigation of a Model for Online Creation and Sharing in Educational Settings" 25 research publications 2001 LON-CAPA is piloted in two physics courses at MSU LON-CAPA becomes open-source (GNU GPL) 2002 Version 0.5 of LON-CAPA released 2003 Version 1.0 of LON-CAPA released ComputerWorld 21st Century Achievement Award for Education and Academia LON-CAPA multilingual interface started LON-CAPA supports bubblesheet exams 2004 Sloan-C, Most Outstanding Effective Practice Award, "Effective Feedback to the Instructor from Online Homework" 50 research publications LON-CAPA joins CampusSource open source exchange Spin-off eduCog hosting and services company LON-CAPA supports portfolios LON-CAPA takes over support of CSE 101, one of the largest courses on campus of MSU 100,000 logins by MSU students in 16 days 2005 MSU AT&T Awards, Best Blended Course - Math 106, Honorable Mention - LBS 271 LON-CAPA gets interface for mobile devices Version 2.0 of LON-CAPA released First Annual LON-CAPA Summer Workshop at MSU LON-CAPA supports single-signon 2006 LON-CAPA used at 70 institutions LON-CAPA supports MAXIMA computer algebra system LON-CAPA supports RSS/podcasts Shared library has 250,000 assets MSU AT&T Award, Best Blended Course - PSL 534/535 2007 Students "cannot do homework" due to power outage LON-CAPA works on iPod with regular interface LON-CAPA used at 90 institutions 2008 MSU AT&T Award, Honorable Mention - ACC 230 10th Annual Conference and Workshop LON-CAPA supports clickers 2009 Finalist, European E-Learning Award, "Project eÜbungen" LON-CAPA supports R statistical package Fifth Annual LON-CAPA Summer Workshop at MSU Every 4th student at MSU uses LON-CAPA LON-CAPA used at 140 institutions 2010 LON-CAPA at CeBIT computer fair LON-CAPA supports "Communities" (non-course groups/collaborations) 75 research publications 75 conference presentations 2011 Winner, Campusemerge Award, "Project VitaMIN(T)" Redesigned interface 110,000 individual students use LON-CAPA every year 2012 73,500,000 problems served by LON-CAPA LON-CAPA used at 160 institutions Shared library has 450,000 assets Second German User Meeting LON-CAPA "outlasts" any other course management software on campus of MSU MSU learning system celebrates 20th birthday as popularity grows CourseWeaver initiative started 2013 150 conference presentations and colloquia Prototype for automated grading of computer code at Ostfalia University 2014 Version 2.11.0 Function plots and force diagrams as graphical response types Recommender prototype becomes available at Ostfalia University Expanding Item Response Theory to Online Homework 2015 Prototype of CourseWeaver platform tested in two physics courses at MSU LON-CAPA expands at Purdue LON-CAPA saving Purdue students money 2016 170 conference presentations and colloquia LON-CAPA served 108 courses with 506 sections at MSU this year LON-CAPA served 20,585 student/course enrollments at MSU this year, which represented 62,045 credit hours 2017 100 research publications 290 schools, colleges, and universities 19th Annual Conference and Workshop
Contact Us: lon-capa@lon-capa.org Site maintained by Gerd Kortemeyer. Supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF-ITR 0085921, NSF-CCLI-ASA 0243126, and NSF-CCLI 0717790. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Initial funding for CAPA has been provided by the Alfred. P. Sloan Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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