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Enhancing Learning Outcomes for Materials Crystallography via Virtual Reality: Role of User Comfort and Game Design
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Dhanush S. Bejjarapu; Yize Chen; Jiyan Xu; Eric Shaffer; Nishant Garg – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Recent advancements in computer graphics and hardware have driven the resurgence of virtual reality (VR). Past literature has reported the use of VR in education, especially for teaching spatially complex concepts. However, there are limited data available on the precise role of VR game design elements. In this study, we introduce a new VR game,…
Descriptors: Physical Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Simulation, Educational Games
An Easily Fabricated Low-Cost Potentiostat Coupled with User-Friendly Software for Introducing Students to Electrochemical Reactions and Electroanalytical Techniques
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Li, Yuguang C.; Melenbrink, Elizabeth L.; Cordonier, Guy J.; Boggs, Christopher; Khan, Anupama; Isaac, Morko Kwembur; Nkhonjera, Lameck Kabambalika; Bahati, David; Billinge, Simon J.; Haile, Sossina M.; Kreuter, Rodney A.; Crable, Robert M.; Mallouk, Thomas E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
This paper presents a teaching kit that combines the fabrication of a low-cost microcontroller-based potentiostat and a LabVIEW-generated graphical user interface. The potentiostat enables undergraduate-level students to learn electroanalytical techniques and characterize energy conversion devices such as solar cells. The purpose of this teaching…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Computer Graphics
Advancing Creative Visual Thinking with Constructive Function-Based Modelling
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Pasko, Alexander; Adzhiev, Valery; Malikova, Evgeniya; Pilyugin, Victor – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2013
Modern education technologies are destined to reflect the realities of a modern digital age. The juxtaposition of real and synthetic (computer-generated) worlds as well as a greater emphasis on visual dimension are especially important characteristics that have to be taken into account in learning and teaching. We describe the ways in which an…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Models, Visual Aids
Technology for the Organic Chemist: Three Exploratory Modules
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Esteb, John J.; McNulty, LuAnne M.; Magers, John; Morgan, Paul; Wilson, Anne M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
The ability to use computer-based technology is an essential skill set for students majoring in chemistry. This exercise details the introduction of appropriate uses for this technology in the organic chemistry series. The incorporation of chemically appropriate online resources (module 1), scientific databases (module 2), and the use of a…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, College Science, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Analysis of Students' Aptitude to Provide Meaning to Images that Represent Cellular Components at the Molecular Level
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Dahmani, Hassen-Reda; Schneeberger, Patricia; Kramer, IJsbrand M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2009
The number of experimentally derived structures of cellular components is rapidly expanding, and this phenomenon is accompanied by the development of a new semiotic system for teaching. The infographic approach is shifting from a schematic toward a more realistic representation of cellular components. By realistic we mean artist-prepared or…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Cytology, Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions
Pictorial Presentation and Review Strategies in Science Learning.
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Alesandrini, Kathryn Lutz; Rigney, Joseph W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1981
Tested were all-verbal or verbal-pictorial presentations followed by either pictorial practice or a control task with 96 undergraduates; results favored pictorial presentation with review. Also tested were effectiveness of pictorial review tasks to a read-twice control with 50 different undergraduates. Pictorial review facilitated performance and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Chemistry, College Science, Computer Graphics