Introduction to the Journal of Chemical Education Special Issue on Insights Gained While Teaching Chemistry in the Time of COVID-19
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The response of chemistry educators to rapid changes in teaching modalities that resulted from the disruption associated with the global COVID-19 pandemic is chronicled via a wide range of papers in this special issue. Hundreds of authors contributed to manuscripts representing a broad cross section of areas of chemistry and many different emphases of the faculty and student experience of emergency remote teaching and learning. Ideas and approaches that were tried in trying times are reported in this collection of papers, as well as how well they worked. This snapshot essentially represents a nearly real-time corpus of papers about how rapid change was effected in chemistry teaching and what some of the effects of the change were.
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Exemplars of multimodal innovations in pedagogical strategy have surfaced to increase motivation while supporting students' understanding of chemistry concepts.
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The editorial reports worldwide creative adaptation to new technologies in chemistry teaching and attention to students’ experiences (Abstract, pp. 2375–2377). It does not say these innovations increased motivation or improved understanding of chemistry concepts; it notes that rigorous measurement of learning impacts was limited. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Holme, T. A.
- Affiliations
- Iowa State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Holme, Thomas A.
- ORCID
- Holme, Thomas A.
- Venue
- Journal of Chemical Education
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2020-09-08
- Volume
- 97
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 2375-2377
- ISSN
- 0021-9584 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-1328
- OpenAlex
- W3084424398
- Cited by
- 102
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 4
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Chemical Education (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Education during COVID-19 pandemic
- Social Sciences › Education › E-Learning and COVID-19
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › Various Chemistry Research Topics
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, emergency remote teaching, chemistry education, teaching modalities, faculty experiences, student experience, online learning
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