Collaborations among the research communities of cognitive science, education, and physical and life sciences are helping chemistry education researchers to study the instructional uses of visualization techniques, particularly visualization and animation of the particulate state of matter. These collaborations reveal how students perceive and interpret various kinds of multimedia presentations and molecular animations and show how to develop design principles for creating and using effective chemistry visualizations. This presentation will describe the results of collaborative research studies on multimedia and molecular visualizations conducted over the past 35 years and will examine new research paradigms developed for investigating these areas.

Award Address  (ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry sponsored by Pearson Education). How multimedia and molecular visualization change the landscape of chemistry education research

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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