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Published February 9, 2021 | Supplemental Material + Published
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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.

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© 2020 American Chemical Society. This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial No Derivative Works (CC-BY-NC-ND) Attribution License, which permits copying and redistribution of the article, and creation of adaptations, all for non-commercial purposes. Received: August 3, 2020; Revised: October 21, 2020; Published: December 21, 2020. 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). Author Contributions. The initial draft was written by S.K., L.R.M., E.B., K.D.F., J.L.M., J.C., R.E.B., D.J., and T.G. All authors commented on the manuscript and read and approved the final version. R.E.B. conceived this project, recruited subject matter experts for the project, taught all three sessions, was responsible for the Web sites, and wrote original material for the 2019 OLCC. S.K. developed modules about line notations, public chemical databases, and programmatic access for the three OLCCs. L.R.M. contributed to the original design of the course and developed several modules in 2015 and 2017. E.B. taught with the 2017 and 2019 OLCCs and contributed his own materials for the 2019 OLCC. K.D.F. and D.J. taught with the 2019 OLCC. J.C. developed modules for the three OLCCs and also led face-to-face classes for the 2017 and 2019 OLCCs. J.L.M. led a face-to-face class during the 2015 OLCC. L.A.M. taught a face to face class for the 2017 OLCC. T.G. participated in the 2017 OLCC and taught this class in hybrid mode that included weekly face-to-face meetings. A.S.I.D.L. developed modules for the 2015 OLCC. Y.L. codeveloped modules about finding information for research in chemistry, collaborative citation management, and data management best practices, and also provided instructional support in the 2015 OLCC. E.H.S. developed modules about representing small molecules and provided instructional support in 2015. A.P.C. helped with the content aspect of the 2017 OLCC and took care of the migration of the course materials from the CCCE Web site to LibreTexts. K.B. codeveloped modules about data management best practices and provided instructional support in the 2015 OLCC. The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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