March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: A new electronic visualization program for teaching and learning organic chemistry This One is Just Right! Information Resources for Small Colleges 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL – March 25-29, 2007 Guenter Grethe

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry  Origins of ChemgaPedia: The VS-C project  Introduction to ChemgaPedia: Overview  Organic Chemistry in the VS-C project  Examples from the learning material  Visualization of molecules and reactions Agenda

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry  The object of the project is the creation of a multimedia program providing easy access to e-learning and e-teaching  The project includes 29 areas covering all aspects of chemistry and related sciences  The content of the learning material has to meet the requirements for a bachelor degree in chemistry  The content was developed by 16 academic groups in Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain  Funding for the project was provided between 1999 – 2004 by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF)  Coordination of the project was done by FIZ Chemie Berlin  FIZ Chemie Berlin is now responsible for continuous development of the project. The VS-C Project V ernetztes S tudium – C hemie = “Networked Chemistry Studies”

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry  15,000 pages  1,250 learning units (individual chapters)  20,000 images (gif, jpg,..)  3,000 animations (Flash, Java, VRML…)  2,000 3D molecular models (mol, xyz, pdb…)  750 streaming video clips  3,500 glossary and biography entries Contents of learning material in VS-C Organic chemistry material created by: working groups of Professor G. Fels (University of Paderborn) and Professor R. Herges (University of Kiel

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry ChemgaPedia Chemistry - Entry Page

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry

March 26, 2007ACS Chicago 2007 ChemgaPedia Enzyclopedia: Teaching and Learning Organic Chemistry  Summary  ChemgaPedia is a multimedia, interactive program providing easy access to all areas of chemistry and related sciences and to other scientific areas, such as mathematics and physics  Textual contents is supported by numerous 2D- and 3D-animations, movies and streaming videos, facilitating the understanding.  Links, search functions, and a navigation frame make it easy to jump from topic to topic  Tutorials are enhanced by glossaries, exercises and biographies  Instructors can add their own learning material to the existing content