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Thursday, July 04, 2002
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=932 Teaching General Chemistry as a Distance Education Course John R. McBride ...The Calculus II course I enrolled for resembles many contemporary distance education courses: they are text-based presentations delivered over the Internet that employ a variety of evaluation methods through the technology of the browser interface. The major feature of these classes has been the use of communication tools such as e-mail and bulletin boards. Even with this enhancement, most students still need more personal help than can be delivered, and they often fall by the wayside. Because of this limitation, subjects that require the representation of processes and unseen phenomena have not lent themselves to distance education courses. Chemistry is just such a subject; without the opportunity to query an instructor, access guided problem-solving exercises, or interact with visualization media, the content of a thorough chemistry course will be hard to assimilate. With the advent of modern Internet technology and software, however, these obstacles are no longer significant, and with a reasonable effort an instructor can design and present a respectable on-line chemistry course. In this article, I detail my personal venture into the development and presentation of an on-line chemistry course and my observations of the course effectiveness....
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