Online approaches to chemical education

206 Pages·2017·18.704 MB·English

by  Canelas, Dorian A., Sörensen, Pia M

Online Approaches to
Chemical Education

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ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES
Online Approaches to
Chemical Education
Pia M. Sörensen, Editor
Harvard John A. Paulson School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dorian A. Canelas, Editor
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Sponsored by the
ACS Division of Chemical Education
AmericanChemicalSociety,Washington,DC
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Contents
1. OnlineCoursesandOnlineToolsforChemicalEducation ................................. 1
PiaM.SörensenandDorianA.Canelas
2. ImprovingPreparationandPersistenceinUndergraduateSTEM:Whyan
OnlineSummerPreparatoryChemistryCourseMakesSense ........................... 7
DerekDockter,CatherineUvarov,AlbertoGuzman-Alvarez,andMarcoMolinaro
3. MotivationalDesigninChemistryMOOCs:ApplyingtheARCSModel........ 35
KunLi
4. AffectingStudentEngagementinanOnlineCoursethroughVirtual
LaboratoryExercises............................................................................................. 47
ErlandP.Stevens
5. OnlineChemistry: TheDevelopmentandUseofaCustomIn-House
LaboratoryKit ....................................................................................................... 57
ShaynaBurchettandJackLeeHayes
6. DevelopingGeneralChemistryIIOnline:........................................................... 71
AlisonR.Noble
7. AllostericMotivationsforBiochemistryOnlineatNorthCarolinaCentral
University................................................................................................................ 81
TonyaGerald-Goins
8. LectureVideo: CharacteristicsandUtilizationsasanOnlineLearning
Resource.................................................................................................................. 91
PamelaL.Mosley
9. Modern“Homework”inGeneralChemistry: AnExtensiveReviewof
theCognitiveSciencePrinciples,Design,andImpactofCurrentOnline
LearningSystems ................................................................................................. 101
ErinE.WilsonandSarahA.Kennedy
10. FlippedTextbooks: Student-CreatedOnlineWikiTextbooksfor
IntermediateandAdvancedChemistryClasses ............................................... 131
BrianC.GoessandAndreaTartaro
11. BlurringtheLinesBetweenOnlineandOn-CampusClassrooms:................. 143
NanetteM.Wachter
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12. FlippedChemistryCourses: Structure,AligningLearningOutcomes,and
Evaluation............................................................................................................. 151
AlisonB.Flynn
13. ServingRuralNorthwesternMontanaThroughOnlineandBlended
ChemistryCourses............................................................................................... 165
JaniceAlexanderandJulieWenz
14. ADecadeofUsingTechnologyforTeachingandLearning: APersonal
PerspectivefromSingapore ................................................................................ 179
RoderickW.Bates
Editors’Biographies .................................................................................................... 189
Indexes
AuthorIndex ................................................................................................................ 193
SubjectIndex................................................................................................................ 195
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Chapter 1
Online Courses and Online Tools for
Chemical Education
PiaM.Sörensen*,1andDorianA.Canelas2
1HarvardJohnA.PaulsonSchoolofEngineeringandAppliedSciences,
HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,Massachusetts02138,UnitedStates
2DepartmentofChemistry,DukeUniversity,
Durham,NorthCarolina27708,UnitedStates
*E-mail: [email protected].
E-mail: [email protected].
This introductory chapter provides current context for the
state of the art and practice in online tools and experiments in
chemical education. In addition to providing an overview of
thespecificworkdetailedinthechaptersofthisvolume,some
important net neutrality trends laffecting world wide access to
highqualityeducationalinformationarebrieflydiscussed. We
concludewithacalltoactionforscienceeducators.
Introduction
The world wide web has been in existence for just over twenty-five years,
but already its potential for impacting education appears to be infinite. Online
platforms provide increasingly sophisticated tools for the mass dissemination
of knowledge and sharing of ideas. These platforms can currently be accessed
by the more than half of the people on Earth who have access to the internet in
2017 (1), and the infrastructure for the internet continues to expand rapidly into
developinggloballocations. Today,onlinelearningisanimportantcurrenttopic
for contemporary educators in diverse fields. The chapters in this book address
these topics specifically for the field of chemistry, giving overviews of existing
workaswellas“snapshotintime”examplesoftheworkbeingconductedinthis
area. The purpose of the book is to examine the relevant successes, challenges,
research findings, and practical examples in online approaches to chemistry
education.
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