Building Chemical Intuition Through "Virual Laboratories": Implementation and Evaluation

要求为进一步发展和实施“虚拟实验室”提供资金。本项目旨在探索有效的化学及相关科学学科教学新策略。交互式和可视化组件将通过万维网上的“虚拟实验室”引入。本项目是我在NSF-DGE博士后研究项目的延续。启动资金将用于实施和评估博士后支持期间开发的“虚拟实验室”。此外，将在学生评价的协助下开发新的课程和改进材料。虽然这笔拨款是针对年轻教员PI的启动，但它将使怀俄明大学的整个科学界受益。与现有教师和化学教育工作者的密切合作将使已开发的工作在全校范围内得到更好的实施。将建立一个计算机实验室，供学生评估所建议的材料。本实验室将由本建议书所包括的设备以及化学系提供的计算机来支持。

Funds are requested for further development and implementation of "virtual laboratories". The goal of this start-up funding is to investigate new teaching strategies for effective chemistry instruction and related scientific subjects. Interactive and visual components will be introduced via "virtual laboratories" on the WWW. This project is a continuation of my postdoctoral research fellowship under NSF-DGE. The start-up funding will be used to implement and evaluate "virtual laboratories" developed during postdoctoral support. Also, new lessons will be developed and material refined with the assistance of student evaluations.While this grant is aimed at start-up for the young faculty PI, it would benefit the whole scientific community at the University of Wyoming. Close collaborations with current faculty and chemical educators will allow the developed work to be better implemented on a campus-wide scale. A computer lab will be developed for student evaluation of proposed material. This lab will be supported by the equipment included in this proposal as well as by computers supplied by the chemistry department.