Animations in teaching

By Nick Greeves2015-01-06T00:00:00

Pedagogic roles of animations and simulations in chemistry courses

Pedagogic roles of animations and simulations in chemistry courses
Jerry P Suits and Michael J Sanger (eds)
2014 | 456pp | £97 (HB)
ISBN 9780841228269

This collection of peer-reviewed book chapters arose out of a symposium at an American Chemical Society meeting. I was hoping for a guided tour of some of the animation and simulation (A&S) highlights that exist for chemical educators but instead the focus is more on why such approaches are effective, how to make them more effective and how to demonstrate what you have achieved. There are four groups of chapters dedicated to theoretical aspects of visualisation design, design and evaluation of visualisations, visualisations studied by chemical education researchers, and visualisations designed for the chemistry classroom.

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