CHED 1457 |
| This presentation will describe the way in which an upper-level undergraduate Environmental Chemistry course offered at Georgia Southern University (Chemistry 3090) has recently been re-designed. The course has been modified such that the amount of class meeting time that is dedicated to traditional face to face lecturing has been decreased and the amount of time devoted to interactive student-centered learning activities has been increased. In order to free up class meeting time for the interactive exercises, the majority of the student learning of basic conceptual course content has been shifted to learning modules which are delivered over WebCT/Vista and completed by students in advance of class meetings. The course marks distribution has been adjusted to provide the students with additional motivation to complete the learning modules before class periods. The learning modules include short multimedia lecture video files (which can be played using freely accessible web-based multi-media players) and quizzes. These changes to the course have been made to reflect current trends in higher education, facilitate the coverage of a breadth of topics in environmental chemistry, allow for greater student-control of learning, and meet the needs of diverse student learning styles. |
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Environmental Chemistry Education
8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Magnolia, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |