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What is LON-CAPA?

LON-CAPA is an open-source freeware Learning Content Management System supported (primarily) by a company called Course Weaver (http://courseweaver.com). Originally, LON-CAPA started in 1992 in the College of Natural Science and Michigan State University where it supported a 90 student physics course at MSU and now serves over 23,000 students per semester at over 30 institutions, ranging from middle school to graduate level courses.

Disciplines that use LON-CAPA include:

• astronomy,
• biology,
• chemistry,
• civil engineering,
• computer science,
• family and child ecology,
• food service and nutrition,
• geology,
• human environment and design,
• human medicine,
• mathematics,
• medical technology,
• physics, and
• psychology.

At MSU alone, LON-CAPA currently serves an average of 11,000 course-students per semester.

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