Learn Chemistry Higher Education

The Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) Learn Chemistry website has a new higher education (HE) section. It is designed to support lecturers in HE as well as teachers and A-level students looking at university and career options.

The most populated part of the site is the educational resources area. Here you will find a selection of Open Educational Resources (OERs), hand-picked for quality by the Learn Chemistry team. One of my favourite resources is the Scale of the Universe web application. This interactive tool allows users to zoom in and out along a length scale, all the way from 10^-35 m (the Planck length) to 10²⁶ m (about the size of the observable universe). This really brings home the relative scale of the things chemists can study: from stars like Alpha Centauri to an atom of caesium.