Inorganic chemistry faculty have been sharing teaching and learning materials through the VIPEr website (www.ionicviper.org) for seven years this spring. With support from the National Science Foundation we have expanded our mission to running workshops designed to help faculty create and share new content and become contributors and not just consumers of the material on VIPEr. In our workshop model experts present cutting edge research and faculty take that material and adapt it for the classroom with the help of mentors from VIPEr’s Leadership Council. Pedagogical sessions include conversations on technological best practices and assessment techniques. We will provide evidence on how the workshops help to create stronger learning materials through collaboration and post-publication revision. We will share how the workshop experience and follow-up activities build a strong community of teaching faculty who are willing to share their both their questions and best practices. Suggestions from the workshops also feed back into the website development process to improve the features and usability of the VIPEr website.

VIPEr faculty development workshops: Cutting edge content development and sharing pedagogical best practices

249th National Meeting (2015)

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