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5 Final Thoughts and Discussion
Pages 29-34

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From page 29...
... This is a huge loss for the nation." Susan Olesik In the workshop's final session, William Carroll, a vice intelligences but not completely redone. Reimer emphapresident at Occidental Chemical Corporation and cochair sized that the chemistry community needs to turn "private of the Chemical Sciences Roundtable, moderated a panel empiricism" -- individuals pursuing new course design based discussion among chemistry department chairs to get their on intuition and experience -- into a legitimate scholarly insights into the state of undergraduate chemistry education enterprise based on evidence developing in the chemistry and their views on the types of innovations that had been education community.
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From page 30...
... Olesik felt that the case MOOC in our department. We have active learning classes, for change in the broad field of science education has been and in fact we have a whole building filled with active learnmade for some time, given the low retention rate for students ing classrooms that we use with these methodologies.
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From page 31...
... We do not need the depth in terms of that information, but we Instead, he said the focus should be on identifying the need the strategic knowledge to be able to use information students who really need to know chemistry and focus on that is available everywhere." educating them. Garcia-Garibay returned to the idea that Olesik said that the work that James Anderson and Scott the community needs to figure out how to offer what is Auerbach described suggests that it is possible to prepare a very desirable product in a more economically viable students to be technologically flexible and have a good manner.
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From page 32...
... • Continue to be creative and continue experimenting. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS • These innovative methods have given us the opportu nity to enhance the education of the best students who In her closing remarks, organizing committee cochair are always going to succeed, but also get the attention Patricia Thiel summarized some of the key messages that
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From page 33...
... "Assessment education renovation because of two things -- great technol- is important because it will help to convince other people ogy and a great foundation of scientific information about that change is worthy," she said. She also said that it is clear what works and what does not work in science education and that the community needs to do a better job disseminating in chemistry education upon which to carry out renovation.
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