2020 Community Forum Series –
“Tools for Online Chemistry Instruction”
The COVID Teaching Landscape
Held on Jun 4, 2020 – Video and Supporting Materials here
Curious about what other chemistry faculty are planning
for fall semester with the disruption caused by COVID-19? Interested in sharing your novel ideas or
pragmatic adjustments you made in changing on the fly from face-2-face to
online instruction? Join us and other
2YC3 members for an informal online chat.
Chemistry Labs in the Time of COVID-19
Held on Jul 30, 2020 – Video and Supporting Materials here
Curious about what other chemistry faculty are planning
for labs and lectures this fall semester with the disruption caused by
COVID-19? Interested in sharing your novel ideas or pragmatic adjustments you
made in changing on the fly from Face-2-Face to online lecture and/or lab
instruction? Join us for an informal chat!
Strategies for Remote Exams and Assessments
Held on Sept 11, 2020 – Video and Supporting Materials here
Network with other two-year college chemistry faculty as we discuss tips on everything from exam logistics and mitigating cheating to small (or big) changes we can make in our assessment approaches. Our hosts for this discussion will be Dr. Laura Anna and Dr. DeeDee Allen. Laura is the Chemistry Department Chair at Montgomery College - Rockville Campus which is a community college in Rockville, Maryland and DeeDee is the 2YC3 Industrial Sponsors Chair and a Professor of Chemistry at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
225th 2YC3
Conference - Fall 2020 – “Tools for Online Chemistry Instruction”
Jack Eichler, Ph.D. –
University of California, Riverside
Held on October 30,
2020 – Video
and Supporting Materials here
A recent study in our research group provides evidence
that within a model flipped classroom treatment, the online learning portion of
the intervention yielded the majority of performance gains and the in-person
collaborative group learning phase did not appear to yield any further
performance gains. These findings suggest instructors should devote more time
and energy optimizing learning materials used in the online learning space.
Ideas for increasing student engagement in online learning and considerations
for how to best teach representational competence in the undergraduate
chemistry curriculum will be discussed.
Olga Katkova M.S. M.Sc – Truckee Meadows Community College
Held on November
10, 2020 – Video
and Supporting Materials here
How is your syllabus and course design holding up to
plans? What is working, and just as importantly, what isn’t working? Many of us
have been told that we will be online again in the spring, and all of us have
had some unique experiences this semester.
Let’s take time in a community forum where we can all share our
experiences and learn from each other!
Charlie Barrows Ph.D. – Cascadia College
Peggy Harbol Ph.D. – Cascadia College
Held
on November 10, 2020 – Video
and Supporting Materials here
In this interactive webinar, participants will explore
active-learning strategies, dissect a lesson from the point of view of the
instructor and of the student, and discuss synchronous/asynchronous adaptations
during COVID. Each participant will leave with a plan to incorporate an
active-learning experience in one of their own lessons. Everyone is welcome,
from newbs to seasoned instructors.
Alexey Leontyev,
Ph.D. – North Dakota State University
Held
on November 13, 2020 – Video
and Supporting Materials here
This talk addresses the use of student-generated
instructional such as videos and infographics to promote awareness of green
chemistry principles during remote instruction. We used Flipgrid
as an asynchronous platform for students to create their videos based on
assigned case studies from the Green Chemistry Challenge award winners. For
student-generated infographics, we used Flipgrid,
Perusall, and Blackboard Discussion Board to help
scaffold the students through creating infographics. These projects were viewed
favorably by students with most indicating that they would like to see similar
assignments implemented in future courses. These activities increase student
awareness of the 12 green chemistry principles. While we implemented these
activities in an Organic Chemistry laboratory course with chemistry majors, we
hope that other instructors who find the need to move their instruction online
can use these activities either directly or with modifications to fit their
course needs.
Peter Mahaffy, Ph.D. – King’s University
Held on November 13, 2020 – Video and Supporting Materials here
Our current first-year chemistry students will be
mid-career professionals in 2050. What
will the world they work and live in look like?
Will they see chemistry as a truly central science that played a crucial
role in addressing the challenges identified in the early part of the century,
such as mitigation and adaptation strategies to address global climate change
and threats to our planetary boundaries? And what lessons will they have
learned from us about how to be resilient and thrive in the midst of the
complexity, uncertainty and change their lives were thrown into by the COVID-19
pandemic? Since the pandemic hit
half-a-year (and what seems like a lifetime) ago, science educators have
reflected on how to teach and learn on-line or in hybrid modes, and great
strategies to make the best of challenging circumstances have come
forward! But there has been much less
deep reflection on what we teach and learn, especially in light of the
massive disruption to the lives of students and educators, the public, and our
planet caused by the pandemic. Should we
“get back to normal” as quickly as we can once a vaccine is widely implemented,
or are there fundamental ways in which we should re-examine education to better
equip students for resilience and thriving in the midst of uncertainty, fear,
complexity and change? This lecture will
draw on the work of a global initiative to unpack and implement systems
thinking in chemistry education. It will
also feature interactive visualizations created by the King’s Centre for
Visualization in Science (www.kcvs.ca)
Ashley Donovan Ph.D. – American Chemical
Society
Lori Watson Ph.D. – Virtual Inorganic
Pedagogical Electronic Resource
Scott Donnelly M.S. – ChemEd
Xchange
Held
on November 20, 2020 – Video
and Supporting Materials here
Do you need or use free electronic resources online for
your teaching? Join us for this
Roundtable where three very different organizations – the American Chemical
Society, the Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource (VIPEr), and Chem Ed Xchange share with us the vast
multitude of FREE electronic resources that are available for chemistry
instructors!
Michael Davis – National Science Foundation
Held on December 4, 2020 – Video
and Supporting Materials Here
The National Science
Foundation is committed to developing a more diverse and capable science and
engineering workforce. The Hispanic
Serving Institution (HSI) program is supported by the DUE and HRD divisions of
the Education and Human Resources Directorate.
A new HSI solicitation was released earlier this year, and proposals are
due in January of 2021. This new
solicitation supports (1) planning and pilot projects, (2) implementation and
evaluation projects, and (3) institutional transformation projects. Two of these areas have incentives for
community college partnerships. Program
Officer and community college professor, Mike Davis, will describe the HSI
program, its various funding tracks, and the major components of proposals for
each track.