The Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists (IONiC) was formed to share content and best practices for teaching and learning in inorganic chemistry. Over the past five years, we have built a website and social networking hub, VIPEr (www.ionicviper.org), a home to more than 500 registered faculty users who share teaching resources, advice, and evidence of student learning. An important lesson that we have learned is that in order to get highly engaged participation on the VIPEr site, we need face-to-face contact to invest people in the community. Over the past three years, we have hosted workshops for faculty on content creation and effective use of VIPEr. In this project, we build on our tested workshop strategy and enhance it with a theme we call �Back to Grad School� (B2GS). Specifically, we will host four summer B2GS workshops that will: 1) Introduce faculty to cutting-edge topics in several subfields of inorganic chemistry; 2) develop at least 80 high quality teaching resources in conjunction with research experts; and 3) disseminate these materials to the global inorganic teaching community through VIPEr.

IONiC: Transforming education through collaborative development of materials at the frontiers of inorganic chemistry

245th National Meeting (2013)

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