Students today have access to a wealth of technology for interacting with digital information, made possible through mobile devices. It can be very enticing to take advantage of these platforms in classrooms. However, the ability to distribute information across the wide range of devices students may possess is a significant problem. This barrier restricts most instructors to distributing text and images, since they simply do not have the time to prepare and format coursework for all the existing devices. HTML5 standards present a simpler approach to distributing dynamic graphics and interactive data across all desktop and mobile platforms. We discuss two key HTML5 technologies,  and WebGL, and also discuss the open source ChemDoodle Web Components library, which is widely used in education and allows scientists to quickly create rich, interactive scientific media and applications that can be easily deployed to students.

Using HTML5 to build immersive teaching materials

244th National Meeting (2012)

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