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Creating content

Creating content

GoConqr – Online curation of resources such as images and videos for content, including a repository for user-created resources which may be kept behind an interest group wall. ClassHook – Online curation of popular (some of them anyway) videos classified according to the academic principles they demonstrate. Great for engagement and flipped classrooms.

Active learning

Active learning

This is an excellent, compelling talk (“Student Engagement: Integrating Active-Learning into Health Science Courses”) by Dr Patrick Brown from ​East Tennessee State University. The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative is a multi-year project at The University of British Columbia aimed at dramatically improving undergraduate science education. Their website is full of useful resources for developing learning activities. There are a particularly useful set of videos about evidence-based activities. Quizlet – provides free, online tools such as flashcards to help students with memorising terms or short answers….

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Experiments in chemistry online

Experiments in chemistry online

100+ experiments in Chemistry – This site hosts chemistry videos developed by scientists and lecturers from Chemicum of University of Tartu, Estonia. Monash Chemistry – over 30 videos designed for tutorials at Monash University How small molecules can change the world – JCU Chemistry Lecturer Rosalie Hocking, a chemist who leads a program studying small molecule transformations at James Cook University.