Communicating Chemistry. A Planning Proposal for Changing the Chemistry Curriculum.

9450702根据革命性的改进学习方法，将制定一项总体计划，对我们在化学中教授的内容和教学方式进行彻底改变，这些方法将在本十年结束前广泛应用。拟议的系统性改革的核心是扩大课程范围，跨越传统的学术和专业界限，以更好地反映不同背景、能力和兴趣的学生在社会上富有成效的一生的需要。与此同时，通过自上而下构思新的课程计划，将有可能产生一个包容性的、而不是排他性的课程计划，允许完成该专业的学生分享想法，发展与那些较早辍学进入替代职业的学生有共同渊源的观点和态度。对于那些确实退学的人来说，课程计划提供了一种现实的感觉，即化学中什么是令人兴奋和重要的，以及它如何适应他们的生活。拟议的课程改革取决于利用目前正在通过电子通信和信息可视化改变学习的技术变革的交付系统。这项规划建议将对哥伦比亚大学整个化学课程的变化产生重大影响，并将转移到其他机构的化学系。其他致力于该项目的机构包括麻省理工学院、麻省理工学院、北卡罗来纳州威斯康星州西北大学的史蒂文斯研究所。

9450702 Fine A master plan will be developed for making sweeping changes in what we teach in chemistry and how we teach it, in light of revolutionary ways for improved learning that will be widely available before the end of this decade. At the heart of the systemic changes proposed is a broadening of the curriculum across traditional academic and professional boundaries to better reflect the needs of a productive lifetime in society for students of different backgrounds, abilities and interests. At the same time, by conceiving a new curriculum plan from the top down, it will be possible to produce one that is inclusive, not exclusive, allowing those who complete the major to share ideas and develop points of view and attitudes that have a common origin with those students who drop away earlier into alternate careers. For those who do drop away, the curriculum plan provides a realistic sense of what is exciting and important in chemistry and how it fits into their lives. Proposed curriculum changes depend on delivery systems that take advantage of the technological transformation that is presently altering learning through electronic communication and visualization of information. This planning proposal will have a significant impact in bringing about change in the entire chemistry curriculum at Columbia and it will be transferable to chemistry departments in other institutions. Other institutions working on this project are IIT, MIT, Stevens Institute, Northwestern, Wisconsin, North Carolina.