In July of 2014, the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists (IONiC) hosted its second NSF-funded summer workshop. The workshop, hosted at Northwestern University, focused on Bioinorganic Applications of Coordination Chemistry. The workshop brought together 24 participants including graduate students, post-docs, and faculty of all rank from both research intensive and primarily undergraduate institutions. The first day of the workshop introduced the Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource (VIPEr) website, covered the fundamentals of teaching using a learning object (LO) and discussed experimental techniques that would be crucial to the remainder of the workshop. The remaining days were spent on the focal points of the workshop; having four experts in the field of bioinorganic chemistry present talks on their research and then developing new LOs based on those talks. A total of 46 new LOs were developed in conjunction of this workshop, with each participant being an author or co-author on at least 2 LOs. Two of the participants and one member of the IONiC leadership council will discuss their experience at the workshop and how their courses have been affected as a result. IONiC will be holding another workshop, Hetero-Genius Catalysis:  An IONiC summer workshop at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry, at the University of Washington in June of 2015.

IONiC VIPEr workshops at the frontiers of inorganic chemistry

249th National Meeting (2015)

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