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I have a faculty member seeking General/Introduction to Chemistry OER materials that would also include online materials such as problem sets, simulations, cases, etc. Any help appreciated.
Ancillary materials for OpenStax Chemistry books are available at:
https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry#resources
https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry-atoms-first#resources
Also, various people have started sharing ancillaries here:
https://www.oercommons.org/groups/openstax-chemistry/1064/discussions/
https://www.oercommons.org/groups/openstax-chemistry-atoms-first/1097/discussions/
You might also try ChemWiki for ancillaries:
http://chem.libretexts.org/
http://chem.libretexts.org/LibreTexts/University_of_California_Davis
I use Openstax Chemistry textbook to teach General/Introduction to chemistry.
The textbook has solved examples and unsolved problems for practice ,embedded videos and simulations . This book can be customized to align with the course outcomes.
My colleague, Shawn Shields, has created a wealth of openly licensed short concept videos for her Chem classes here at Germanna to supplement her other OER materials. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaoV5G6Xe2Voq29NQCNWlBA
Any OER chemistry sources for my community college instructor?
Our Chemistry department is already using the Harvey book on this list and is considering ways to move toward some of the others - https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Chemistry
OpenStax has chemistry open textbooks. And, if your college uses Canvas LMS, we created a course shell for the OpenStax texts. For just the text, go to www.OpenStax.org . For the course shells, go into Canvas Commons and search "CCC OEI OpenStax".
For lab handouts, I mostly pick and choose from the Santa Monica College Online Chemistry Lab Manual Which I have had a lot of success with. Other than that, I adapt or write my own labs, which I haven't uploaded as OER explicitly, but I am happy to do so. They're still a work in progress for the most part, but I'll attach some of the more complete/successful ones. Contact Sean Ryland, sryland@ltcc.edu , for the materials
For general chemistry, the OpenStax textbook is available electronically at no cost, or at a very modest (<$100) cost for a fully bound and color printed version. All OpenStax content is now available in fully ADA-compliant mode in CANVAS Commons as well. LibreText and MERLOT also have OER chemistry content available for faculty adoption.
https://chem.libretexts.org/
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
f you are looking for OER for General Chemistry I and II, I would recommend Open Stax as well.
However, if you are looking for an Introduction to Chemistry course, the Open Stax is a little too much for that and would require a lot of modification.
We, Forsyth Technical Community College, created an OER course for Introduction to Chemistry. It has been submitted and approved through the Achieving the Dream Grant. If you would like more information about the introductory level course, let me know.
Dr. Kirsten Williford
Program Coordinator, Physical Sciences
Chemistry Instructor
Forsyth Technical Community College
336-734-7592
kwilliford@forsythtech.edu
Any OER chemistry sources for my community college instructor?
OpenStax has chemistry open textbooks. And, if your college uses Canvas LMS, we created a course shell for the OpenStax texts. For just the text, go to OpenStax.org . For the course shells, go into Canvas Commons and search "CCC OEI OpenStax".
If you are looking for OER for General Chemistry I and II, I would recommend Open Stax as well.
However, if you are looking for an Introduction to Chemistry course, the Open Stax is a little too much for that and would require a lot of modification.
We, Forsyth Technical Community College, created an OER course for Introduction to Chemistry. It has been submitted and approved through the Achieving the Dream Grant. If you would like more information about the introductory level course, let me know.
If you are using Canvas, Maricopa Millions has published three chemistry courses via Canvas Commons. You can find them by using the search tag "MMOER."
I was wondering if anyone has adopted BCcampus' Introductory Chemistry - 1st Canadian Edition (https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=c7025f6b-f32b-4d0a-865e-f473d9f98fb6&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Chemistry)
and can share what is "Canadian" about it and whether it would be suitable for US adoption?
In your opinion would a US faculty member need to make substantial edits?
In answer to your question about what is Canadian about Introduction to Chemistry - 1st Canadian edition, the adapting author,
Dr. Jessie Key, states: "The only real efforts to 'Canadianize' it was to remove some of the questions with imperial units
(there may still be some present), and to add topics which would be covered in a Canadian introductory chemistry course.
Also, by default, I did use Canadian spelling for any content I wrote."
This was one of the first major adaptations embarked on by BCcampus Open Education
(referred to as the B.C. Open Textbook Project at the time).
With time, we developed a more comprehensive guide for Canadianizing open textbooks including adding Canadian content,
replacing examples with Canadian ones, and using Canadian spelling (see Appendix 3: Canadian Spellings and Word List in the
Self-Publishing Guide).
To read what other changes were made to the Introduction to Chemistry - 1st Canadian edition adaptation, see the
Metadata section at the bottom of the online home page of this textbook.
We have a faculty member looking for ancillary materials for an Introduction to Chemistry course. He is interested mainly in Power Point slides and test banks.
I have been able to find some materials looking through this listserv's archive:
http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/oer/oerlistfromlistserve.htm#Chemistry < http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/oer/oerlistfromlistserve.htm#Chemistry > .
However, he is adapting the textbook published by the Saylor Foundation ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introductory-chemistry ), and would like to know if there are materials out there that were developed specifically for that textbook.
We, the LibreTexts, have integrated that text and ungraded it a bit into
our chemistry library ( chem.libretexts.org ). We haven't prepared a slide
deck (yet), but will do so soon as part of out comprehensive mandate for
chemistry. We have collected a lot of questions over the years (public
and private) for use as a test bank.
The professor is welcome to use the OpenStax ancillaries for Chemistry or Chemistry Atoms First, even if he isn’t using our texts.
Chemistry (Note, sometime this year we’ll publish a second edition of this book): https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry?Instructor%20resources
Atoms First Chemistry: https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry-atoms-first?Instructor%20resources
He’ll need to create an account and be verified as a faculty member for some of the resources. He can do that here: https://accounts.openstax.org/signup
Is anyone privy to some good General Chemistry I & II lab manuals and/or textbooks? We are currently using https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry-2e . Any leads are greatly appreciated!
You mean beside the Chemistry library of the LibreTexts with the largest collection of chemistry OER on the net?
https://chem.libretexts.org/
Hi Chris, you can browse Oregon's chemistry adoptions here: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=chemi
Does anyone have some resources or textbooks or manuals for Chemistry Lab Courses?
We have a lot to pick from
https://chem.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=lab+manual&type=wiki
and individual labs are here:
https://chem.libretexts.org/Ancillary_Materials/Laboratory_Experiments
Several of these are wired into our ADAPT homework system.
I am searching for some good power points for the following textbook: Gen Chem II - OpenStax
Check in OER Common's OpenStax hub. There are lots of resources for the text.
https://oercommons.org/groups/openstax-chemistry-2e/1064/?__hub_id=27
OpenStax Chemistry 2e comes with various free instructor resources, including PowerPoint slides! You can find those here.
You will need to create an instructor account to access these resources.
Does anyone have a lead on a homework system for general chemistry that's similar to Active Chemistry?
Our faculty are using an OpenStax book, but students are still paying for access to the Active Chemistry homework system,
and we'd love to get them connected with an OER resource instead. They've explored options to build them in MyOpenMath and
WeBWork, but don't have capacity to take on the project right now.
We (LibreTexts) have been building a OER homework system called ADAPT
( https://adapt-promo.libretexts.org/ )
for the past four year thanks to support from the State of California. In fact, we focused on gen chem first
(I am a Prof of Chem at University of California, Davis BTW).
The system include IMathAS (the tech around MyOpenMath), Webwork, H5P, and native question (including an organic chemistry sketcher).
We have been expanding the chemistry corpus extensively from open-source libraries and from our own.
You can see some of the problems here (including the molecular sketcher):
https://adapt.libretexts.org/students/assignments/73558/init-formative
It is a freely available question bank for all verified users so your faculty can start looking at the questions immediately (once verified).
Using it as a submission platform requires some buy-in by at a very low price (we operate at cost as part of our mission).
We did a recent informal overview for an OpenEducationGlobal chat last week:
https://x.com/OpenEdGlobal/status/1852380096549531749
Let me know if you need any more details. The project has been growing like gangbusters recently.
Regards,
Delmar
Organic Chemistry
I have a professor working on moving an organic chemistry course to OER. He’ll be using the LibreText books but needs some help with assignments.
Anyone have any resources they can send my way? Homework sets, prompts, anything like that will help. We discussed project-based assignments to make grading easier.
We have been collecting OER ochem questions for a while on the LibreTexts and have started to migrate them into the new ADAPT system. This is the first step to building a more o-chem oriented technology akin to openOchem.
We have already integrated the questions from Soderberg's Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis (Soderberg) text into ADAPT (although they are mostly open-ended, i.e., not part of the autograded setup). We have started to migrate the more traditional questions into ADAPT and this summer we will be building the complete question databank to accompany McMurray's textmap (a OER version of the commercial text that is under developement).
Moreover, several repositories of GOB questions have been integrated, which include a range of basic ochem questions.
If any of these are of interest to you, please contact me directly and I can showcase them to you.
Regards,
Delmar
One of my chemistry faculty is heavily involved with OER, and has the following suggestions:
Here are a couple:
A - http://www.openochem.org/ooc/
B - https://organic.101edu.co/
C - https://wwnorton.knowledgeowl.com/help/smartwork
A is open source. C is the best right now, it’s my goto and not expensive but is for-pay. B was just released and (while I haven’t played with it) looks awesome (also for-pay).
A has classic problems, C is great for mechanisms, B can be used for active learning in lecture or online (plus quizzes, hw, and more).
I have an instructor who wants to start utilizing OER in his Organic Chemistry online classes.
He (previously) has been using SmartBook and ALEX – he will need OER materials and including “a drawing tool”
– I am including the course descriptions of the two classes for your perusal.
CHM 221 – Organic Chemistry I
This is the first course in a two-semester sequence.
Topics in this course include nomenclature, structure, physical and chemical properties, synthesis,
and typical reactions for aliphatic, alicyclic, and aromatic compounds with special emphasis on reaction mechanisms, spectroscopy, and stereochemistry.
Laboratory is required and will include the synthesis and confirmation of representative organic compounds with emphasis on basic techniques.
CHM 222 – Organic Chemistry II
This is the second course in a two-semester sequence.
Topics in this course include nomenclature, structure, physical and chemical properties, synthesis, and typical reactions for aliphatic, alicyclic, aromatic,
and biological compounds, polymers and their derivatives, with special emphasis on reaction mechanisms, spectroscopy, and stereochemistry.
Laboratory is required and will include the synthesis and confirmation of representative organic compounds with emphasis on basic techniques.
We have a range of Ochem content/texts in our chemistry library:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?mode=visual&search=%22organic%20chemistry%22&library=&subject=&location=all&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=&cid=&sort=random
We have been building these for 15+ years and look forward to expand them when the McMurry text is available very soon.
Although the Morsch text is a map of McMurry's text.
As for drawing. We just received a State of California grant to expand the ADAPT homework system into many STEM fields.
The first year (starting this summer) will be involve chemistry and we have the plans setup for expanding with molecular drawing tools (as part of ochem assessments)
along with other tech advancements.
I am writing to see if anyone is aware of a laboratory manual to accompany the Openstax Organic Chemistry book.
I have a professor wanting to utilize the book, but is having trouble finding suitable materials for the full course – especially the second semester.
We've found a lab manual from Moravian College (authors Libby & Libby), as well as Nichols' Organic Chemistry Laboratory Techniques.
Any other resources we should be considering?
We have our ochem labs in a mini-repository rather than a formalized lab manual on our LibreTexts platform:
Check out here:
https://chem.libretexts.org/Ancillary_Materials/Laboratory_Experiments/Wet_Lab_Experiments/Organic_Chemistry_Labs
We recommend the following high quality, OER lab manuals and resources for Organic Chemistry:
Early topics: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/369
Survey of organic chemistry: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17kCOjwvFzr1BUhUZRl5SHJ09CUedmvaR
Lab techniques: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/369
I am helping an instructor looking for organic chemistry OER quiz questions for students, they need to also be accessible. For example, quizzes related to mechanism, name reactions such as condensation reactions etc.
For a textbook, the class is using Organic Chemistry tenth addition (available in OpenStax). The faculty is trying to use the question bank OpenStax provides, but the files are all .dat files that can't be opened and .png images? Ideally, it would be great if the files were in a format that could be uploaded to Blackboard Ultra, but anything at this point is helpful. (And, if anyone has insight into the correct way to use these ancillary materials, that would also be appreciated. The quiz bank we are unable to use is located in the instructor resources here: https://openstax.org/details/books/organic-chemistry?Instructor%20resources )
We (LibreTexts) harvested the Openstax ochem questions into our ADAPT homework system awhile back. We had to build new technology to handle molecule submitting, atom/bond selector, and arrow pushing that simple LMSs quizzing systems cannot handle natively. We have even more sophisticated question types planned soon. We also created a lot of new questions from other books in my department and as part of a California grant a few years ago (I am a chemistry professor in my day job). ADAPT instructor accounts are freely available at https://Register.libretexts.
I’m not sure if this helps, but we recently developed the following OER for Organic Chemistry: https://
There are interactive H5P quizzes included with each of the videos.
Thanks for posting! Lindsay from OpenStax here. We're thrilled your institution is using OpenStax's Organic Chemistry textbook. The test bank questions are collected as a QTI package and organized into a zip file for each chapter. You can upload the QTI package to Blackboard Ultra by following these instructions. This video also demonstrates how to import question banks in Blackboard.
Additionally, we're happy to help obtain alternative formats for the questions. Please reach out to our customer support team if interested by emailing support@openstax.org.