Using technology in a large lecture organic class for nonchemistry majors

CHED 1611

Jeffrey S. Moore, Departments of Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, and the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, 3321 Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL 61801, Philip A Janowicz, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, 600 S Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801, and Jay Wm. Wackerly, wackerly@uiuc.edu, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.
In a large lecture classroom of non-chemistry majors it is sometimes difficult to stimulate interest and retention of the subject. At the University of Illinois around 600 students complete the first semester of this organic chemistry course and around 300 students complete two semesters. In efforts to make this course more appealing to this large amount of broadly interested students we have begun to implement technology in various forms into the classroom. One way this is being done is by recording the lectures and allowing them to be accessed at any time by the students on the Internet. Another method we use is to design homework assignments that require the students to search scientific databases. These and other topics will be presented during this talk.
 

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

Division of Chemical Education

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008