CHED 1605 |
| Synthesis Explorer is an interactive tutorial system for organic chemistry which enables students to learn chemical reactions in ways previously unrealized. Accessible online through a user-friendly Web interface, Synthesis Explorer delivers a rich learning experience including: dynamic generation of customized multi-step synthesis design and mechanism prediction problems; context-specific feedback; and support for inquiry-based learning through experimentation and interactive dialogue with the system. The system is founded upon a reaction expert system currently comprising over 50 reagent models and over 600 manually-curated reaction patterns, representing the majority of an undergraduate organic chemistry curriculum. These reaction models confer inherent predictive power, which enable the system to generate a virtually limitless number of problems and to answer common questions of reactivity, including the inference of complete arrow-pushing mechanisms. Pedagogical experiments in undergraduate classes at UC Irvine indicate that the system can improve average student examination performance by ~10%. System is available at http://cdb.ics.uci.edu. |
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Using Technology to Enhance Learning in Organic Chemistry
1:00 PM-4:15 PM, Thursday, April 10, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- HEC C, Oral
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Division of Chemical Education |