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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)

CAPOD (St Andrews)

• CAPOD
• 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

• National STEM centre
• Scotland STEM centre

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)

• SFC publications on chemistry

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

• Journal of Chemical Education

Routledge journals

Paid subscription only, but here are some free sample articles from 2009

Books in St Andrews Main Library

• Classmark LB2331

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

Moodle Help

• University's Moodle