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Design of Project-Based Learning Activities for Carbon Dioxide Capture under the Vision of Carbon Neutralization
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Chun Wang; Hepei Jiang; Yanjie Wu; Jing Hou; Zhangbin Su; Yiling Lin; Rongxian Zhang – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
In the face of an increasingly severe global climate change situation, carbon neutrality initiatives have been included in the development action plans of many countries around the world. The carbon neutrality vision will also accelerate the revolution in the energy systems of countries around the world, injecting new vitality into the upgrading…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Science Instruction, Science Education, Active Learning
A Positive Student Experience of Collaborative Project Work in Upper-Year Undergraduate Chemistry
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Knox, Kerry J.; Gillis, Elizabeth A. L.; Dake, Gregory R. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
Demands are placed on undergraduate courses in chemistry to develop transferable skills, such as teamwork, alongside subject content and technical skills. Such skills can be developed by implementing pedagogies which involve students working together. Such pedagogies can, however, pose various challenges, including unfavourable student perceptions…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Cooperative Learning, College Science
Learning through Citizen Science: Enhancing Opportunities by Design. Consensus Study Report
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Pandya, Rajul, Ed.; Dibner, Kenne Ann, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2018
In the last twenty years, citizen science has blossomed as a way to engage a broad range of individuals in doing science. Citizen science projects focus on, but are not limited to, nonscientists participating in the processes of scientific research, with the intended goal of advancing and using scientific knowledge. A rich range of projects extend…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Citizen Participation, Science and Society, Science Education
Using Cogenerative Dialogs to Improve Science Teaching and Learning: Challenges and Solutions in High School Students' Internships
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Hsu, Pei-Ling – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2018
Internships in science research settings have received increasing attention as a means of helping students construct appropriate understandings, practices, tools, and language in scientific activities. To advance student-scientist partnerships beyond the status quo, the study aimed to investigate how cogenerative dialogs (cogens) may help high…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Dialogs (Language), High School Students
Design of a Dynamic Undergraduate Green Chemistry Course
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Kennedy, Sarah A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
The green chemistry course taught at Westminster College (PA) incorporates nontraditional teaching techniques and texts to educate future chemists about the importance of using green chemistry principles. The course is designed to introduce green chemistry concepts and demonstrate their inherent necessity by discussing historical missteps by the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Undergraduate Students, Environmental Education, Chemistry
Cyberlearning Community Report: The State of Cyberlearning and The Future of Learning with Technology
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Ahn, June; Asbell-Clarke, Jodi; Berland, Matthew; Chase, Catherine; Enyedy, Noel; Fusco, Judith; Gardner, Shari; Grover, Shuchi; Halverson, Erica; Jona, Kemi; Lane, H. Chad; Martin, Wendy; Mercier, Emma; Moher, Tom; Ogan, Amy; Pinkard, Nichole; Polman, Joseph; Roschelle, Jeremy; Schank, Patricia; Taylor, Katie Headrick; Wilkerson, Michelle; Worsley, Marcelo – Grantee Submission, 2017
Cyberlearning researchers envision and investigate the future of learning with technology. As of summer 2017, the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (CFTL) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) had made 279 research grant awards. In addition, several hundred other NSF research projects have cyberlearning themes. Many of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Science Course Improvement Projects, Instructional Design, Research Projects