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Goals of the "hands-on" virtual laboratory |
| The Laboratory Manual for Chemistry in Context ACS text lists several goals for the non-science student: ?The object is not to train future chemists, but rather to show what chemists do and how they do it ? as well as giving you an opportunity to discover how chemists solve problems.? We have been exploring how the use of the laboratory problems developed by the ChemCollective virtual laboratory (http://www.chemcollective.org) can meet these goals. The difficulty of providing a hands-on creation and manipulation of molecular models, not addressed in the virtual laboratory design, has been overcome by the development of a number of online Java-based 2D- and 3D modeling programs. (http://people.emich.edu/bramsay1/Molecular_Models/) The advantageous and problems of teaching chemistry online to non-science students will be described. |
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