Experience chemistry like never before with our next-generation learning platform, Aktiv Chemistry. Learn how the platform:
Find us at Booth #701 in the Exhibit Hall E!
Co-founder, Aktiv Learning
Director of Customer Success
Senior Product Marketing Manager— Science
Strategic Accounts Director
Three Aktiv Chemistry faculty will be presenting their research throughout the week. Check out the details below, you won’t want to miss their sessions!
PRESENTATION FORMAT: Oral – In-person
DAY & TIME OF PRESENTATION: Sunday, March 26, 2023 from 4:40 PM – 5:00 PM
ROOM & LOCATION: Room 110 – Indiana Convention Center
Greater access to technology for students, now native to virtual learning environments out of either choice or pandemic-related necessity, has forced student approach to coursework and subject mastery to evolve. While tools like online homework software have been around for many years, there has been much room for improvement in the interfaces students use, the scaffolding of the new problems students are learning to solve, and the ability to use those programs effectively inside the classroom. Beginning in Fall 2021, Aktiv Chemistry (formerly Chem101) has been employed in a variety of ways in the General and GOB Chemistry courses at Springfield College, a small private 4-year institution heavily aligned with educating future health professions without a chemistry major. This software has improved accessibility for students at all levels of introduction-level chemistry, both in and out of the classroom. The ability to provide students with a wide variety of scaffolding exercises has helped support students with weaker backgrounds in mathematics and prior chemistry due to educational interruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. In anonymous post-exam surveys, students report using Aktiv homework problems, ungraded practice problem sets, and daily in-class assignments as some of their primary study tools for exam preparation.
PRESENTATION FORMAT: Oral – In-person
DAY & TIME OF PRESENTATION: Sunday, March 26, 2023 from 4:40 PM – 5:00 PM
ROOM & LOCATION: Room 110 – Indiana Convention Center
Greater access to technology for students, now native to virtual learning environments out of either choice or pandemic-related necessity, has forced student approach to coursework and subject mastery to evolve. While tools like online homework software have been around for many years, there has been much room for improvement in the interfaces students use, the scaffolding of the new problems students are learning to solve, and the ability to use those programs effectively inside the classroom. Beginning in Fall 2021, Aktiv Chemistry (formerly Chem101) has been employed in a variety of ways in the General and GOB Chemistry courses at Springfield College, a small private 4-year institution heavily aligned with educating future health professions without a chemistry major. This software has improved accessibility for students at all levels of introduction-level chemistry, both in and out of the classroom. The ability to provide students with a wide variety of scaffolding exercises has helped support students with weaker backgrounds in mathematics and prior chemistry due to educational interruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. In anonymous post-exam surveys, students report using Aktiv homework problems, ungraded practice problem sets, and daily in-class assignments as some of their primary study tools for exam preparation.
PRESENTATION FORMAT: Oral – Hybrid
DAY & TIME OF PRESENTATION: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 from 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
ROOM & LOCATION: Wabash Ballroom 2 – Indiana Convention Center
The Chemistry Boot Camp at Texas Christian University was developed as a mechanism designed to equalize the disparities in education that many of our students face coming into general chemistry. This disparity was only exacerbated by the worldwide pandemic and implemented in Summer 2020. The goal of the Chemistry Boot Camp is to build the fundamental knowledge and skill sets necessary to successfully transition from High School education into a university level general chemistry course. Topics and concepts focused on basic math, dimensional analysis, nomenclature, and stoichiometry. The free course is delivered using synchronous and asynchronous methods and relies heavily on the Aktiv Chemistry platform for practice problems and assessments. This talk will focus on the basic implementation of our Chemistry Boot Camp and how the Aktiv Chemistry platform is integrated to prepare students to succeed in general chemistry in addition to a discussion of the unexpected result of community building within the Boot Camp cohorts.
Learn about the development of Aktiv Chemistry and the AktivGrid for Organic Chemistry courses straight from our founder.
PRESENTATION FORMAT: Oral – In-person
DAY & TIME OF PRESENTATION: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from 8:25 AM – 8:45 AM
ROOM & LOCATION: Room 121 – Indiana Convention Center
As educators, we continuously strive to listen to our students and improve our teaching methodologies. However, insights from our students and our teaching process can often be limited to a single classroom, department, or institution.
Aktiv Chemistry is a next-generation active platform built specifically for first-year and organic chemistry courses. The platform helps instructors easily incorporate active learning into their classrooms and also keeps students engaged outside of class with homework assignments, extra practice, and quizzes that they can access anytime on their smartphones and other personal devices.
As a platform, Aktiv works with chemistry instructors and faculty at over 600 colleges and universities across North America. For the first time since the platform’s inception, we have performed a deep analysis of student performance and pattern data at a scale that has not been achieved before. This analysis has produced insights into how we as educators can improve student engagement, target common misconceptions, and better understand student study habits.
Questions that will be explored in this talk will include:
The results of this analysis has driven the development of a new Aktiv Chemistry platform feature called Weekly Course Insights. These weekly reports provide instructors with individual insights about their course including at-risk students, common missed learning objectives, and comparison metrics with the community at large. Examples of these reports will be shown in a live demonstration.
One of our Learning Specialists will give you a tour of the Aktiv Chemistry learning platforms and provide a free instructor playground account with access to the content library.
One of our Learning Specialists will give you a tour of the Aktiv Chemistry or Aktiv Mathematics learning platforms and provide a free instructor playground account with access to the content library.
