Teaching resources for chemistry staff
News (June 2010)
- Latest HEA (Higher Education Academy)Physical Sciences Centre e-bulletin (Note this is also sent around to staff by email)
SALTIRE
- Saltire Homepage
- Turnitin Guide (PDF, 209 KB)
Higher Education Academy (HEA) (General)
- HEA main page many resources, for example: assessment and feedback
- HEA Scotland
Higher Education Academy (HEA) UK (Physical Sciences section)
- Pedagogic themes (see left menu; includes Assessment and Maths support)
- Projects (see left menu; includes skills and outreach) and subject reviews including the student experience of chemistry
- Biggest Annual UK Conference: Variety in Chemical Education 2010
- Events listing
- Briefing papers Including Sustainable Development and Physics for chemists, disability and labs, writing programme specifications and paper resources
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Teaching and Outreach Organisation
Qualifications and accreditation
- QAA (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) subject benchmark for chemistry
- Scottish Qualifications Agency
- RSC accreditation
Rubric or grade-related criteria samples for Higher Education
- Rubric or Grade-Related Criteria Sheet for doing a project
- Rubric or Grade-Related Criteria Sheet for a project presentation
- Rubric or Grade-Related Criteria Sheet for a project write-up
RSC
- Tertiary education group
- Events (select Education from pull-down subject menu)
- RSC journal University Chemical Education which died and was reborn as CERP
- RSC journal Education in Chemistry
SFC (Scottish Funding Council)
HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England)
- HEFCE website
- Chemistry for Our Future (CFOF) (A National STEM programme funded by HEFCE and managed by the RSC)
ACS
Routledge journals
Paid subscription only, but here are some free sample articles from 2009
Books in St Andrews Main Library
Blogs
- Listing of about 25 chemistry blogs (not necessarily on education)
- Female science professor (see also blogroll on this blog)
- Academic time management (see also blogroll on this blog)
Jmol
- Free, open source interactive 3d web viewer
- ChemTube3D: New resource showing animated 3d reactions
Site-licensed e-learning software
- Respondus Create a range of different question types for paper or automatic e-assessment. Not just for WebCT
- Wimba Create Formerly Course Genie. Create rich, interactive web-based course web pages from a Word document. Not just for WebCT