238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society; August 2009; Washington DC; Symposium Title: Using Technology to Enhance Learning in Organic Chemistry. Presentation Title: Creation and implementation of a fully online organic chemistry course

1. Fully Online Organic Chemistry: To Infinity and Beyond Phil Janowicz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ACS National Meeting August 17, 2009

3. HHMI / AAMC 2009 report Low levels of science competency and analytical thinking among students entering medical school Develop an interdisciplinary competency-based learning approach in the pre-med curriculum De-emphasize fact-based learning and rote-memorization This change runs parallel to MCAT overhaul

4. Jeff Moore

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8. Discussion Sessions

9. Exams Uses ACE Organic and can deliver structure and mechanism questions Can also be combined with Jmol to deliver bioorganic chemistry questions (movie)

10. Online Course - Survey 23%, no pref 32%, no 32%, live 68%, yes 45%, online Statistically significant difference at 95% confidence level

11. Online Course - Comments “I used to think that online courses weren't interactive, but … that was refuted.” “This online format was great…. Professor Moore is a very approachable guy.” “You can actually learn from online courses.”

12. Online Course - Conclusions Students rate the course as at least on par with live course Saves instructor time, TA grading hours, room reservations, and money Students can learn from wherever they are!

13. Course taught simultaneously at 5 universities around the world to roughly 900 students University of Detroit-Mercy Peking University Won’t you join us? University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Massachusetts - Amherst Lahore University of Management Sciences

14. Acknowledgments Prof. Jeff Moore Mike Evans Dan Nejak Preston May Prof. Bob Grossman Murchison-Mallory endowed chair ($$)

15. For more information: Please contact Phil Janowicz (me) at pjanowi2@illinois.edu or Jeff Moore at jsmoore@illinois.edu We’d love to have you! :-D