In late June-early July of 2015, the third NSF-funded summer workshop was hosted by the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists (IONiC). The workshop, hosted at the University of Washington, focused on catalysis. The workshop brought together 21 participants including post-docs and faculty of all rank from both research intensive and primarily undergraduate institutions. The workshop ran from Sunday evening through Friday noon. The first evening of the workshop introduced the Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource (VIPEr) website, and covered the fundamentals of teaching using a learning object (LO) including the concept of understanding by design. The remaining days were spent on the focal points of the workshop: having four experts in the field of catalysis present talks on their research and then developing new LOs based on those talks. Several presentations were given to introduce the participants to foundational knowledge required for the speaker talks. In addition, participants and organizers were provided with many opportunities to discuss the challenges they face in teaching and methods they have employed.  A total of 37 new LOs were developed in conjunction of this workshop, with each participant being an author or co-author on at least 2 LOs. IONiC will be holding another workshop, Organometallic Chemistry at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry, at the University of Michigan in late June of 2016.

Incorporation of research in the undergraduate inorganic chemistry curriculum: IONiC VIPEr workshops

251st National Meeting (2016)

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