College and university faculty find themselves tasked with teaching
in the face of ever-changing trends in higher education and
constant shifts in the student population. Educators must balance
student engagement and retention with their learning and
satisfaction in a never-ending cycle of changes in technology, the
economy, and the political climate. Even when certain pedagogies or
classroom techniques are shown to be beneficial in one discipline,
individual faculty may find it challenging to apply them in their
own classrooms. This is certainly true in chemistry. Many faculty
in chemistry today struggle to embrace research-based educational
practices, even those coming out of our own discipline. Graduate
programs in chemical education, recent reports on discipline-based
education research (1), and an increase in the scholarship of
teaching and learning in chemistry indicate a desire among many
faculty to change-to reach students in new and exciting ways or to
change curricula to better meet students' needs. Faculty are
looking for things that work-techniques used by chemists, for
chemists. This volume contributes to this on-going conversation.
The scholarship presented within this volume is organized in three
sections. The first explores innovations found to enhance the
learning of typical students as well as those who may be
under-prepared. Authors describe their experiences using the
flipped classroom and institutional readiness models. The second
section provides examples of how technology may be utilized in the
chemistry classroom-from e-textbook usage to a computational
chemistry program to concrete suggestions for teaching chemistry
online. The final section addresses broader issues in chemistry.
One chapter demonstrates how to incorporate High-Impact Educational
Practices (2) into courses for chemistry majors and nonmajors. A
final chapter describes how colleges can adopt the Green Chemistry
Commitment. Additionally, contextual information for pedagogical
change may be found in the Introduction as well as helpful tips for
adopting new approaches.
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