Online Course Resources
Find free digital resources here to support your online chemistry and chemical engineering courses.
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Compilations of Online Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Learning Resources
- Education ResourcesRoyal Chemical Society. Find simulations, processes, and more for your courses.
- ChemCollectiveA collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests.
- Open Educational Resources: Simulations and Virtual LabsOERs for chemistry, chemical engineering, and other subjects
- ChemEdXchangeResources for teaching chemistry online.
- ACS Journal of Chemical Ed: Virtual IssueResources for Teaching Your Chemistry Class Online: A Free-To-Read Collection from the American Chemical Society & ACS Division of Chemical Education
- Chemistry ResourcesThe Learning Center, U-North Carolina. Includes links to MIT Open Courseware, UC-Berkeley and others.
Recommended by Other Chemists
- Virtual Chemistry LabMerlot. Mix virtual chemicals and see how they react. Guaranteed not to blow anything up.
- Periodic Videos (YouTube Channel)School of Chemistry, Univ. of Nottingham. Hundreds of videos including videos on all of the elements
- LearnChemE (YouTube Channel)University of Colorado Boulder. Chemical engineering screencasts and interactive simulations--not for the beginner
- ChemistNATE (YouTube Channel)Specific problems in chemistry for lower division courses
- Extractions&Ire (YouTube Channel)Case studies: Taking all the chemistry you're learning and applying it to making things
"How To" for Chemistry Classroom Media
Enhancing the student experiment experience: Visible scientific inquiry through a virtual chemistry laboratory, Donnelly et al. Research in Science Education, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1571–1592, Aug. 2013.
Teaching a Chemistry MOOC with a Virtual Laboratory: Lessons Learned from an Introductory Physical Chemistry Course, O'Malley et al, Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 92, no. 10, pp. 1661–1666, Oct. 2015.