Loading...Based on OER e-book about polymers (https://ecucei.com/polimeros/), as a final project for the organic chemistry course (2nd semester), we ask the students to select an specific kind of commercial plastic to find, from another OERs, this information:
i) Understand the chemical synthesis mechanism (conditions, monomers, reactions involved, etc.),
ii) Bulk properties of the material (melting temperature, physical properties, etc.)
iii) Uses of the this plastic (useful life, degradation mechanism, etc.)
iv) Estimate the environmental impact of the waste.
The students will identify the information gaps of the OERs used as reference for their projects.
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DrGudinho
Goals:
Inspire the students to mix and use OERs, as the open textbook of polymer science did, to develop the final project to be published on the web.
Scope:
The students will produce an OER about a polymer recycling project, based in another OERs to develop skills of information management in order to understand the application of the basic organic chemistry concepts. The OER will be published on a wordpress.com web page, editable by members of the team and peer-reviewed by their mentor and class partners.
Resources:
INTRODUCCIÓN A LA CIENCIA DE LOS POLÍMEROS https://ecucei.com/polimeros/
Wikipedia
https://es.wikipedia.org/
Wikimedia
https://www.wikimedia.org/
BIOCOMPOSITOS3D (example)
https://biocompositos3d.wordpress.com/
Quality criteria:
1.- The web site has a Creative Commons license
2.- Visible for anyone (public)
3.- The resource can receive feedback from the visitors
4.- The contents will avoid plagiarism (could be easily identified)
4.- The links published will show the sources (reliable, trackable, etc.)
Grant Potter
I like how you have identified a strong example that uses WordPress https://biocompositos3d.wordpress.com/. I think this example will be helpful for students as they gather content for this project. You mentioned that the project will be peer reviewed. Did your team discuss how the peer review would be structured for the mentor(s) and students? The peer review could be as simple as comments or annotations, but I have seen some learner-centred projects use more formalized peer review structures like the one detailed on page 6 of this document https://pkp.sfu.ca/files/OJS_Project_Report_Shapiro.pdf