@article{ed980c7f46e4475ca19f2cb2b582527f,
title = "Teaching Cheminformatics through a Collaborative Intercollegiate Online Chemistry Course (OLCC)",
abstract = "While cheminformatics skills necessary for dealing with an ever-increasing amount of chemical information are considered important for students pursuing STEM careers in the age of big data, many schools do not offer a cheminformatics course or alternative training opportunities. This paper presents the Cheminformatics Online Chemistry Course (OLCC), which is organized and run by the Committee on Computers in Chemical Education (CCCE) of the American Chemical Society (ACS)'s Division of Chemical Education (CHED). The Cheminformatics OLCC is a highly collaborative teaching project involving instructors at multiple schools who teamed up with external chemical information experts recruited across sectors, including government and industry. From 2015 to 2019, three Cheminformatics OLCCs were offered. In each program, the instructors at participating schools would meet face-to-face with the students of a class, while external content experts engaged through online discussions across campuses with both the instructors and students. All the material created in the course has been made available at the open education repositories of LibreTexts and CCCE Web sites for other institutions to adapt to their future needs.",
keywords = "Cheminformatics, Computer-Based Learning, General Public, Graduate Education/Research, Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary, Internet/Web-Based Learning, Professional Development, Upper-Division Undergraduate",
author = "Sunghwan Kim and Bucholtz, {Ehren C.} and Kristin Briney and Cornell, {Andrew P.} and Jordi Cuadros and Fulfer, {Kristen D.} and Tanya Gupta and Evan Hepler-Smith and Johnston, {Dean H.} and Lang, {Andrew S.I.D.} and Delmar Larsen and Ye Li and McEwen, {Leah R.} and Morsch, {Layne A.} and Muzyka, {Jennifer L.} and Belford, {Robert E.}",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank additional colleagues who participated in or contributed to the Cheminformatics OLCCs: David Wild (Indiana University Bloomington), Justin Shorb (Hope College), Stuart Chalk (University of North Florida), Ralph Stuart (Keene State College), John Penn (University of West Virginia), Damon Ridley (Reaxys), Anja Brunner (Reaxys), Herman Bergwerf (MolView), Robert Hanson (St. Olaf College), Martin Walker (SUNY-Potsdam), Elizabeth Blue (Campbell University), Jon Holmes (Chemical Education Xchange), Jason Moore (University of California, Davis), Hao Zhu (Rutgers University, Camden), Nathan Brown (BenevolentAI), Alex Clark (Molecular Materials Informatics, Inc.), Steve Heller (InChI Trust), Rick Spinney (Ohio State University), Peter Hoare (Newcastle University), and Xavier Prat-Resina (University of Minnesota Rochester). E.C.B. thanks Miss C. Katherine Bucholtz for assistance in creating the graphical abstract. The Cheminformatics OLCC was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (Grant No. DUE-1140485). The work of S.K. was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Select students who presented at the ACS National Meetings were supported by a joint Division of Chemical Education/Chemical Information (CHED/CINF) Innovative Project Grant (IPG) from the ACS. LibreTexts was supported by the U.S. NSF (Grant No. NSF-DUE-1525862) and Department of Education (Grant No. P116T180029) Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
month = feb,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01035",
language = "English",
volume = "98",
pages = "416--425",
journal = "Journal of Chemical Education",
issn = "0021-9584",
publisher = "American Chemical Society",
number = "2",
}