IONiC: Transforming Education Through Collaborative Development of Materials at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry

该项目的目标是通过设计、实施、评价和传播结合前沿研究课题的课堂和实验室活动，在全国范围内提高学生在无机化学方面的学习。四个专业发展研讨会加深教师在材料，生物无机化学，催化和有机金属化学新兴研究课题的内容知识。讲习班由来自各种机构类型的教育学和学科专家领导，包括这些领域的主要研究人员。根据研究编写的教材由讲习班参加者编写，并由讲习班专家负责人审查。讲习班参加者加入了一个无机化学家的在线社区，并在虚拟无机教学电子资源（VIPER）网站上传播他们的工作。VIPER是一个合作，对话和传播的平台，拥有550多名注册教师用户，并作为一个动态社区，用于评估和改进这些材料。研讨会参与者和VIPer社区的其他人测试学习材料，并报告学生在VIPer上的学习成果。这四个讲习班的虚拟版本也可在VIPer上查阅。

The goal of this project is to improve student learning in inorganic chemistry on a national scale through design, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of classroom and laboratory activities that incorporate topics in cutting-edge research. Four professional development workshops deepen faculty content knowledge in emerging research topics in materials, bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, and organometallic chemistry. Workshops are led by pedagogy and discipline experts from a variety of institution types, including leading researchers in these areas. Teaching materials based on the research are produced by workshop participants and reviewed by the expert workshop leaders. Workshop participants join an online community of inorganic chemists and disseminate their work on the Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resources (VIPEr) web site. VIPEr, a platform for collaboration, conversation, and dissemination, is home to more than 550 registered faculty users and serves as a dynamic community for the evaluation and improvement of these materials. Workshop participants and others in the VIPEr community test the learning materials and report student learning outcomes on VIPEr. Virtual versions of the four workshops are also made available on VIPEr.