Virtual Computational Chemistry Teaching Laboratories—Hands-On at a Distance

Autor: Thomas M. Soini, Theodorus P. M. Goumans, Samuel Poncé, Leopold Talirz, Nicola Marzari, N. O. Carstensen, Marnik Bercx, Francisco F. Ramirez, Giovanni Pizzi, Edward Linscott, Rika Kobayashi, Carl S. Adorf, Iurii Timrov, Sebastiaan P. Huber, Christopher J. Sewell
Jazyk: angličtina
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Zdroj: J. Chem. Educ.
ISSN: 1938-1328
0021-9584
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00655
Popis: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted chemistry teaching practices globally as many courses were forced online, necessitating adaptation to the digital platform. The biggest impact was to the practical component of the chemistry curriculum—the so-called wet lab. Naively, it would be thought that computer-based teaching laboratories would have little problem in making the move. However, this is not the case as there are many unrecognized differences between delivering computer-based teaching in-person and virtually: software issues, technology, and classroom management. Consequently, relatively few “hands-on” computational chemistry teaching laboratories are delivered online. In this paper, we describe these issues in more detail and how they can be addressed, drawing on our experience in delivering a third-year computational chemistry course as well as remote hands-on workshops for the Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry and the European BIG-MAP project.
Databáze: OpenAIRE