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In this episode Julia talks with Dr. Henry "Hoby" Wedler and Professor Dean Tantillo about their experience adding a new vision to learning at UC Davis and how it has affected their work outside of the classroom.  Credits:Host: Julia WinterSpecial Guest: Dr. Henry "Hoby" Wedler …

Dr. Michelle Thompson discusses the unique classrooms at Effingham College and Career Academy with Julia and they dive into the research study that Michelle's students were involved in with WestEd. Credits:Host: Julia WinterSpecial Guest: Dr. Michelle ThompsonProducer: Typhany JonesEditor/Logo/Musi…

Join Julia as she talks with Michael Seery the outgoing editor-in-chief of the Chemistry Education Research and Practice journal and Gwen Lawrie the incoming editor-in-chief. They go into the submission and review process of research papers. Credits:Host: Julia WinterSpecial Guest: Michael Seery &a…

 How can two classrooms in different countries work together to improve teaching chemistry? Listen as Julia discusses collaborative education with chemistry professors, Brett McCollum of Mount Royal University in Calgary Canada, and Layne Morsch of the University of Illinois in Springfield US.…

Britland Dekorver, a Professor of Chemistry at Grand Valley State University, catches up with Julia about the popular Facebook community she founded and grew. They discuss how it helps teachers and students, especially during this time where remote learning has grown exponentially. Credits:Host: Ju…

What ideas do students have for online education? We talk with Tanjot Grewal of McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) and Nicole Kada of Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) about the student perspective about the coming online semester. What are some of the ideas they bring to make online …

Julia talks with Bellevue College faculty member Jennie Kong Mayer and her organic chemistry student Rizmina Lathiff about features she used with Zoom to make her online class more interactive. We caught up with Jennie after a post in ChemEdX.org about the methods she used to build community and en…

Lab flow was designed to wrap digital curriculum around the traditional lab, wet bench experience that we're all trying to give students, which I think it's very important. But starting in April, when schools started closing down, we had a number of institutions who were using our software and they…

In today's episode, Julia Winter sits down with Professor Renee Link of UC Irvine and talks about how she implemented the Specs Grading method in teaching a 1000-student organic chemistry lab course. Find out what Specs grading is, and why it changes the nature of assessment in teaching and learnin…