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Upcoming
Events
Friday
December 4th 10 am PST / 11 am MST / noon CST / 1 pm EST
Webinar
– 60 minutes – Register Here
Improving Undergraduate STEM
Education: Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) – A New Solicitation from the
National Science Foundation
Michael Davis, Ph.D.
The National Science
Foundation is committed to developing a more diverse and capable science and
engineering workforce. The Hispanic
Serving Institution (HSI) program is supported by the DUE and HRD divisions of
the Education and Human Resources Directorate.
A new HSI solicitation was released earlier this year, and proposals are
due in January of 2021. This new
solicitation supports (1) planning and pilot projects, (2) implementation and
evaluation projects, and (3) institutional transformation projects. Two of these areas have incentives for
community college partnerships. Program
Officer and community college professor, Mike Davis, will describe the HSI
program, its various funding tracks, and the major components of proposals for
each track.
Dr. Michael
Davis is a Program Director for the Division of
Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation
2021 Online Conferences:
Interested in presenting?
Have an idea? Would you like to
be a coordinator for a future online conference? Contact Scott Donnelly (donnelly@2yc3.org), We need your help! .
226th
2YC3 Conference – Spring 2021 April-May 2021
227th
2YC3 Conference – Fall 2021 October-November 2021
2022 In-Person Conferences
Our traditional events are small, regional affairs (~100 people)
with low registration costs (~$50 not including membership for $25). Come join us for these two-day events where
you can meet other community college chemistry instructors in person! These events are tentatively planned, with
the current health crisis in mind. If
you would like to host a conference (and we would LOVE for you to) please email
Kathy Carrigan at kcarriga@pcc.edu
228th
2YC3 Conference – Tentative Spring 2022
Rochester
Community and Technical College in Rochester, Minnesota
27th
Biennial Conference on Chemical Education – Summer 2022
Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana
229th
2YC3 Conference – Tentative Fall 2022
Wake Tech
Community College, Southern Wake Campus; Raleigh, North Carolina
Past 2020
Events
225th 2YC3
Conference - Fall 2020 – “Tools for Online Chemistry Instruction”
Free Resources Roundtable
Ashley Donovan Ph.D. – American Chemical
Society
Lori Watson Ph.D. – Virtual Inorganic
Pedagogical Electronic Resource
Scott Donnelly M.S. – ChemEd
Xchange
Held
on November 20, 2020-– Video and Supporting Materials here
Do you need or use free
electronic resources online for your teaching?
Join us for this Roundtable where three very different organizations –
the American Chemical Society, the Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic
Resource (VIPEr), and Chem Ed Xchange share with us
the vast multitude of FREE electronic resources that are available for
chemistry instructors!
Chemistry Education Today for our 2050 World
Peter Mahaffy, Ph.D. – King’s University
Held
on November 13, 2020 –
Our current first-year
chemistry students will be mid-career professionals in 2050. What will the world they work and live in
look like? Will they see chemistry as a
truly central science that played a crucial role in addressing the challenges
identified in the early part of the century, such as mitigation and adaptation
strategies to address global climate change and threats to our planetary
boundaries? And what lessons will they have learned from us about how to be
resilient and thrive in the midst of the complexity, uncertainty and change
their lives were thrown into by the COVID-19 pandemic? Since the pandemic hit half-a-year (and what
seems like a lifetime) ago, science educators have reflected on how to teach and learn on-line or
in hybrid modes, and great strategies to make the best of challenging
circumstances have come forward! But
there has been much less deep reflection on what we teach and learn,
especially in light of the massive disruption to the lives of students and
educators, the public, and our planet caused by the pandemic. Should we “get back to normal” as quickly as
we can once a vaccine is widely implemented, or are there fundamental ways in
which we should re-examine education to better equip students for resilience
and thriving in the midst of uncertainty, fear, complexity and change? This lecture will draw on the work of a
global initiative to unpack and implement systems thinking in chemistry
education. It will also feature
interactive visualizations created by the King’s Centre for Visualization in
Science (www.kcvs.ca)
Student-generated instructional materials and their use for
assessment purposes in remote teaching environments
Alexey Leontyev,
Ph.D. – North Dakota State University
Held
on November 13, 2020 -– Video and Supporting Materials here
This talk addresses the use
of student-generated instructional such as videos and infographics to promote
awareness of green chemistry principles during remote instruction. We used Flipgrid as an asynchronous platform for
students to create their videos based on assigned case studies from the Green
Chemistry Challenge award winners. For student-generated infographics, we used Flipgrid, Perusall, and
Blackboard Discussion Board to help scaffold the students through creating
infographics. These projects were viewed favorably by students with most
indicating that they would like to see similar assignments implemented in
future courses. These activities increase student awareness of the 12 green
chemistry principles. While we implemented these activities in an Organic
Chemistry laboratory course with chemistry majors, we hope that other
instructors who find the need to move their instruction online can use these
activities either directly or with modifications to fit their course needs.
Remote Active Learning Techniques
Charlie Barrows Ph.D. – Cascadia College
Peggy Harbol Ph.D. – Cascadia College
Held
on November 10, 2020 -– Video and Supporting Materials here
In this interactive webinar,
participants will explore active-learning strategies, dissect a lesson from the
point of view of the instructor and of the student, and discuss
synchronous/asynchronous adaptations during COVID. Each participant will leave
with a plan to incorporate an active-learning experience in one of their own
lessons. Everyone is welcome, from newbs to seasoned instructors.
What’s Working and What Isn’t?
Olga Katkova M.S. M.Sc – Truckee Meadows Community College
Held on November
10, 2020 -– Video and Supporting Materials here
How is
your syllabus and course design holding up to plans? What is working, and just
as importantly, what isn’t working? Many of us have been told that we will be
online again in the spring, and all of us have had some unique experiences this
semester. Let’s take time in a community
forum where we can all share our experiences and learn from each other!
Fostering Student Learning in the Online Environment: Moving
Beyond the Typical Lecture Video
Jack Eichler, Ph.D. –
University of California, Riverside
Held on October 30,
2020 - Video and Supporting Materials here
A recent study in our
research group provides evidence that within a model flipped classroom
treatment, the online learning portion of the intervention yielded the majority
of performance gains and the in-person collaborative group learning phase did
not appear to yield any further performance gains. These findings suggest
instructors should devote more time and energy optimizing learning materials
used in the online learning space. Ideas for increasing student engagement in
online learning and considerations for how to best teach representational
competence in the undergraduate chemistry curriculum will be discussed.
2020 Community Forum Series –
“Tools for Online Chemistry Instruction”
Strategies for Remote Exams and Assessments
Held on Sept 11, 2020 – Video and Supporting Materials here
Network with other two-year
college chemistry faculty as we discuss tips on everything from exam logistics
and mitigating cheating to small (or big) changes we can make in our assessment
approaches. Our hosts for
this discussion will be Dr. Laura Anna and Dr. DeeDee Allen. Laura is the Chemistry Department Chair at
Montgomery College - Rockville Campus which is a community college in
Rockville, Maryland and DeeDee is the 2YC3 Industrial Sponsors Chair
and a Professor of Chemistry at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Chemistry Labs in the Time of COVID-19
Held on Jul 30, 2020 – Video and Supporting Materials here
Curious about what other
chemistry faculty are planning for labs and lectures this fall semester with
the disruption caused by COVID-19? Interested in sharing your novel ideas or
pragmatic adjustments you made in changing on the fly from Face-2-Face to
online lecture and/or lab instruction? Join us for an informal chat!
The COVID Teaching Landscape
Held on Jun
4, 2020 -
Video and Supporting Materials here
Curious about what other
chemistry faculty are planning for fall semester with the disruption caused by
COVID-19? Interested in sharing your
novel ideas or pragmatic adjustments you made in changing on the fly from
face-2-face to online instruction? Join
us and other 2YC3 members for an informal online chat.