TEACHING RESOURCES INFORMATION
TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
ChemWiki: The Dynamic Chemistry Textbook
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Prof. Delmar Larsen
NAME OF PRODUCER
UC Davis ChemWiki by University of California
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Web Site/Portal
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Basic, Medium
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Cooperative learning, Problem solving
SUBJECT AREA
Fundamental Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Primary School, Lower Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
English
DESCRIPTION
The ChemWiki project is a collaborative approach toward chemistry education where an Open Access textbook environment is constantly being written and re-written partly by students and partly by faculty members resulting in a free Chemistry textbook to supplement conventional paper-based books. Success of the project will be gauged by the number of students who consult the ChemWiki and the number of Chemistry courses that eventually adopt the ChemWiki as the sole textbook for class needs. Anyone can view, although a freely available account is required to edit the site modules. The ChemWiki was created, and the development team is currently directed by Prof. Delmar Larsen in the Chemistry department at UC Davis. The ChemWiki is the pilot STEMWiki developed to demonstrate efficacy of the Dynamic Textbook Project, which is a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access textbooks to improve STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) at all levels of higher learning.The central aim of the Dynamic Textbook Project is to develop and disseminate free, virtual, customizable textbooks that will substitute for current, commercial paper texts in multiple courses at post-secondary institutions. Other STEMWikis in the Dynamic Textbook Project include the BioWiki, the GeoWiki, the StatWiki, the PhysWiki and the MathWiki.
COMMENTS
One of he very useful chemistry web page with many information about and from all chemistry areas as: textbooks, lab techniques, history of chemistry, demos and virtual chemistry, organic, inorganic, biological, analytical and physical chemistry, workshops and exercises, etc.
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
TRANSFER Slovensko, s.r.o.
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