Engaging chemistry educators through virtual roundtables: how the COVID-19 pandemic led to a community-wide initiative
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Members of the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists (IONiC) report the development and sustained efforts to provide virtual professional development sessions: Supporting Learning with Interactive Teaching: a Hosted, Engaging Roundtable (SLiThEr). SLiThEr’s emerged from a community need at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic; since then, SLiThEr’s have become a standard event for the IONiC community. SLiThEr’s are real- time virtual community events, after which a recording of the SLiThEr is posted on the IONiC YouTube channel. In this paper, an overview of the structure, format, and emergence of SLiThEr’s is reported, followed by evaluation of SLiThEr offerings, a plan for future SLiThEr offerings, and a discussion of how SLiThEr’s impact teaching practice. Graphical Abstract
Source: Discover Education
Institutions: California Polytechnic State University, University of Rhode Island, Colorado State University Pueblo, Oregon State University, DePaul University, Lafayette College, Southeast Missouri State University, Lewis University, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University, University of South Florida
Language: English
Subfield: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,340
OpenAlex ID: W4399866462