Greening the Curriculum: Traditional and Online Offerings for Science and Nonscience Majors

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghna Dilip ◽  
Margaret E. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Green Chemistry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Online Course ◽  
State University ◽  
Chemistry Curriculum ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry ◽  
Nonscience Majors ◽  
Upper Level

Abstract This chapter describes the efforts of the faculty at Worcester State University (WSU) to infuse green chemistry into the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. It specifically focuses on the structure of two stand-alone classes. One is aimed at a chemistry audience and is an upper-level elective for the major. The other is an online course aimed at a nonscience audience. Both are three-credit lecture-only classes.

Catalyzing learning with green chemistry undergraduate research

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey A Welch
Keyword(s):  
Green Chemistry ◽  
Furfuryl Alcohol ◽  
Solid Acid Catalyst ◽  
Acid Catalyst ◽  
Ethyl Esters ◽  
Transfer Hydrogenation ◽  
Isopropyl Ether ◽  
Chemistry Curriculum ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry ◽  
Chemistry Research

AbstractGreen chemistry and sustainability are important concepts to incorporate into the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Through the development of innovative undergraduate chemistry research projects in these areas, retention of students in the physical sciences can be improved. This paper describes two projects in undergraduate catalysis research: hydrogenation of furfural and the esterification of biooil from pyrolyzed wood. Catalytic transfer hydrogenation (CTH) of furfural with Pd/C led to the production of furfuryl alcohol, furfuryl isopropyl ether, 2-methylfuran, and tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol. The metal chloride additives improved selectivity for furfuryl alcohol and furfuryl isopropyl ether. Catalytic conversion of pyrolyzed wood biooil in ethanol with a solid acid catalyst yielded ethyl esters, including ethyl acetate and ethyl propionate, as characterized by GC/MS These projects are described in the context of engaging undergraduate students in hands-on research for the purpose of improving retention and persistence, as well as preparing young scientists to enter graduate programs and the STEM workforce.

Graduate Student Designed and Delivered: An Upper-Level Online Course for Undergraduates in Green Chemistry and Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca A. Haley ◽  
Jessica M. Ringo ◽  
Heather Hopgood ◽  
Kendra Leahy Denlinger ◽  
Anushree Das ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Green Chemistry ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Upper Level

An introductory course in green chemistry: Progress and lessons learned

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalila G. Kovacs ◽  
James Krikke ◽  
Kristina Mack
Keyword(s):  
Green Chemistry ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
State Level ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
State University ◽  
Green Engineering ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
Upper Level

Abstract This work provides a description of our experience with designing and implementing green chemistry elements in higher education. It addresses the problem of content and methodology in green chemistry education and provides models of innovative approaches in design and teaching practices. An introductory course, Pollution Prevention, Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, supported by a grant from Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, was designed at Grand Valley State University (GVSU), in Michigan, in 2008 and run for the first time in 2009, with 12 students. The positive response from the students who took the class coupled with increasing visibility of green chemistry initiative at the state level (MI Governor’s Green Chemistry directive and Green Chemistry Round Table) led the GVSU administration to recognize the need of such a course and, after revision, to its inclusion into the Chemistry Department curriculum, under the designation “Introduction to green chemistry”, CHM 111. This remains to be a sought-after course for freshmen and upper-level undergraduates interested in the issues of green chemistry who have no chemistry background in their education. Since 2011, the course ran twice a year with a total of 302 students to date (December 2017). From semester to semester, it underwent several modifications, in order to accommodate the most recent, up-to-date developments in green chemistry and green engineering. The repository of teaching materials created is growing continuously. The progress and lessons learned throughout the years in running this course are summarized here.

scholarly journals Design of a Personalized Massive Open Online Course Platform

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junfu Xi ◽  
Yehua Chen ◽  
Gang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Learning ◽  
Prediction Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Learning Behaviour ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Massive Open Online Course ◽  
Learning Behaviours ◽  
Personalized Intervention

Focusing on the massive open online course (MOOC) platform, the purpose of this study is to realize personalized adaptive learning according to the needs and abilities of each learner. To this end, the author created a personalized adaptive learning behaviour analysis model, and designed a personalized MOOC platform based on the model. Through the analysis of learning behaviours on the MOOC platform, the model digs deep into the pattern of learning behaviours, and lays the basis for personalized intervention in the learning process. The comparison ex-periments show that our prediction method is more accurate than the other predic-tion algorithms. This research sheds new light on the design of learner-specific MOOC platform.

Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor, and Liberation. By David McNally. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 277p. $72.50 cloth, $23.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-191
Author(s):  
Nicholas Xenos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
State University ◽  
The Real

David McNally styles this book as beginning in a polemic and ending in a “materialist approach to language” much indebted to the German critic Walter Benjamin. The charge is that “postmodernist theory, whether it calls itself poststructuralism, deconstruction or post-Marxism, is constituted by a radical attempt to banish the real human body—the sensate, biocultural, laboring body—from the sphere of language and social life” (p. 1). By treating language as an abstraction, McNally argues, postmodernism constitutes a form of idealism. More than that, it succumbs to and perpetuates the fetishism of commodities disclosed by Marx insofar as it treats the products of human laboring bodies as entities independently of them. Clearly irritated by the claims to radicalism made by those he labels postmodern, McNally thinks he has found their Achilles' heel: “The extra-discursive body, the body that exceeds language and discourse, is the ‘other’ of the new idealism, the entity it seeks to efface in order to bestow absolute sovereignty on language. To acknowledge the centrality of the sensate body to language and society is thus to threaten the whole edifice of postmodernist theory” (p. 2).

scholarly journals PENYUSUNAN PAKET PELATIHAN PENGEMBANGAN KECERDASAN INTRAPERSONAL UNTUK MAHASISWA

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (VIII) ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
Rina Sukawati
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Instructional Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Development Model ◽  
State University ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Training Package ◽  
Intrapersonal Intelligence ◽  
The University ◽  
Intelligence Development

The purpose of this research was to develop training package for intrapersonal intelligence development for the students of Educational Technology Department, School of Education, State University of Jakarta. The package was develop by employing Instructional Development Model. The research resulted in training package for intrapersonal intelligence development for the university students which is expected to be applicable or adjustable for trainings and the other universities for the similar purposes. A set of recommendation is given in using this package to be effective and efficient.

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