Reimagining Advanced Chemistry Education: A Community-based Approach to Course Design for Modern Learners
Chemistry education at the graduate level and beyond faces the formidable challenge of a boundless and constantly expanding frontier of knowledge on many fronts. While modern learners have an increasingly broad range of resources available at their disposal (including open access text-based references, online videos, training problems, and other digital learning materials), there are comparatively fewer such materials aimed at the highest levels of study. With the goal of producing widely accessible graduate-level learning content, we created a community-based approach to online course design that is easily digestible to meet the expectations of modern learners. Herein, we report the development of an open access Advanced Organic Chemistry video-based online course and several other specialized minicourses using the Synthesis Workshop YouTube channel.
Authors
- Sam Crossley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4187-5079)
- Maximilian D. Palkowitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3651-5175)
- Matteo Balletti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7862-4871)
- Francisco José Aguilar Troyano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5274-7219)
- Joshua Paolillo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8147-2680)
- Chun Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1710-9868)
- Yael Ben‐Tal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2461-8150)
- César Reyes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9016-8672)
- Craig S. Day (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6931-0280)
- Peter Bellotti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9367-5100)
- Vera Jost
- Aitor Maestro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4726-9675)
- M. Campbell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3547-9213)
- Matthew W. D. Perry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9799-0746)
- Thomas Verheyen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0831-3901)
- Emma Gogarnoiu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9317-2770)
- Xing‐Feng Bai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5065-8279)
- Benjamin Thoma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3380-7866)
- Mark P. Walsh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3185-2460)
- Terry McCallum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8034-7180)
- Emily R. Wearing (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7482-3144)
- Andrew V. Tran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3855-1353)
- Fu Kit Sheong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3803-9985)
- Georg Wuitschik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6682-1213)
- Matthew A. Horwitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3934-9317)
- Pol Hernández‐Lladó (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2465-3949)
- Gabriele Laudadio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2749-8393)
- Phillip S. Grant
- Hayden A. Sharma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3894-9118)
- Duc N. Tran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7864-2730)
- Reem Al-Ahmad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7591-3371)
- Alicia Wagner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1782-1721)
- G. W. Harris
- K. Forbes
- Aidan P. Looby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7955-1328)
- Riya Halder
- Patrick J. Deneny
- Morgan Jouanneau
- Julia C. Reisenbauer
- Kathleen C. Cheasty
Institutions
- AstraZeneca (United Kingdom) (GB)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Roche (Switzerland) (CH)
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) (US)
- Northeastern University (US)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- Mansfield University (US)
- Amgen (United States) (US)
- Johnson & Johnson (United States) (US)
- Janssen (Belgium) (BE)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University of Antwerp (BE)
- Emory University (US)
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb (Germany) (DE)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
- Nanyang Technological University (SG)
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (GB)
- Discovery Centre (CA)
- California Southern University (US)
- Oxford Research Group (GB)
- University of California System (US)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ES)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb (United States) (US)
- Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry (RU)
- Nawi Graz (AT)
- AstraZeneca (Australia) (AU)
- AstraZeneca (Singapore) (SG)
- Canadian Bank Note Company (Canada) (CA)
- AstraZeneca (Sweden) (SE)
- Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (Austria) (AT)
- Carbon Engineering (Canada) (CA)
- Parque Tecnológico de la Salud (ES)
- Signature Research (United States) (US)
- Chemical Synthesis Lab (SG)
- University of Houston (US)
- University College London (GB)
- New York University (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Neurocrine Biosciences (United States) (US)
- Universidad del Noreste (MX)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Chemical Education
- Published
- 2025-08-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5c00555
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Innovative Teaching Methods
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 8.93