Teaching Cheminformatics through a Collaborative Intercollegiate Online Chemistry Course (OLCC)

• Sunghwan Kim ^[1] ; Ehren C. Bucholtz ^[12] ; Kristin Briney ^[2] ; Andrew P. Cornell ^[3] ; Jordi Cuadros ^[4] ; Kristen D. Fulfer ^[13] ; Tanya Gupta ^[5] ; Evan Hepler-Smith ^[6] ; Dean H. Johnston ^[7] ; Andrew S.I.D. Lang ^[8] ; Delmar Larsen ^[14] ; Ye Li ^[9] ; Leah R. McEwen ^[10] ; Layne A. Morsch ^[15] ; Jennifer L. Muzyka ^[11] ; Robert E. Belford ^[3]
  1. [1] National Center for Biotechnology Information

     National Center for Biotechnology Information

     Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] California Institute of Technology

     California Institute of Technology

     Estados Unidos

     
  3. [3] University of Arkansas at Little Rock

     University of Arkansas at Little Rock

     Township of Big Rock, Estados Unidos

     
  4. [4] Universitat Ramon Llull

     Universitat Ramon Llull

     Barcelona, España

     
  5. [5] South Dakota State University

     South Dakota State University

     City of Brookings, Estados Unidos

     
  6. [6] Duke University

     Duke University

     Township of Durham, Estados Unidos

     
  7. [7] Otterbein University

     Otterbein University

     City of Westerville, Estados Unidos

     
  8. [8] Oral Roberts University

     Oral Roberts University

     Estados Unidos

     
  9. [9] Massachusetts Institute of Technology

     Massachusetts Institute of Technology

     City of Cambridge, Estados Unidos

     
  10. [10] Cornell University

      Cornell University

      City of Ithaca, Estados Unidos

      
  11. [11] Centre College

      Centre College

      Estados Unidos

      
  12. [12] University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis, United States
  13. [13] Centre College, Danville, United States
  14. [14] University of California-Davis, United States
  15. [15] University of Illinois Springfield, United States

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• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 98, Nº 2, 2021, págs. 416-425
• Idioma: inglés
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  • While cheminformatics skills necessary for dealing with an ever-increasing amount of chemical information are considered important for students pursuing STEM careers in the age of big data, many schools do not offer a cheminformatics course or alternative training opportunities. This paper presents the Cheminformatics Online Chemistry Course (OLCC), which is organized and run by the Committee on Computers in Chemical Education (CCCE) of the American Chemical Society (ACS)’s Division of Chemical Education (CHED). The Cheminformatics OLCC is a highly collaborative teaching project involving instructors at multiple schools who teamed up with external chemical information experts recruited across sectors, including government and industry. From 2015 to 2019, three Cheminformatics OLCCs were offered. In each program, the instructors at participating schools would meet face-to-face with the students of a class, while external content experts engaged through online discussions across campuses with both the instructors and students. All the material created in the course has been made available at the open education repositories of LibreTexts and CCCE Web sites for other institutions to adapt to their future needs.