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

[9450702]很好，我们将制定一项总体规划，以彻底改变我们的化学教学内容和教学方式，采用革命性的改进学习的方法，这些方法将在本十年末之前广泛应用。提出的系统改革的核心是拓宽课程，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中富有成效的一生的需求。与此同时，通过自上而下地构思一个新的课程计划，将有可能产生一个包容性的，而不是排他性的，让那些完成专业的学生分享想法，发展观点和态度，这些观点和态度与那些更早辍学从事其他职业的学生有共同的起源。对于那些放弃的学生，课程计划提供了一个现实的感觉，什么是化学中令人兴奋和重要的，以及它如何融入他们的生活。拟议的课程改革取决于利用目前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。这一规划提案将对哥伦比亚大学的整个化学课程产生重大影响，并将转移到其他机构的化学系。其他参与这个项目的机构包括印度理工学院、麻省理工学院、史蒂文斯研究所、西北大学、威斯康辛州、北卡罗来纳州。

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.