Distance Education
From Chemical Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Collaboratory
All of the Chemical Informatics courses are taught in regular classrooms at several locations, and to distance education students scattered around the country. Remote students participate through the use of a teleconference, and a web conferencing system. To date, the conferencing systems we have used are:
We also use Oncourse for asynchronous communication.
You can read about our work on this in our recent Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling paper.
We are also forging a partnership with the University of Michigan Pharmaceutical Engineering program. From fall 2006, we will begin sharing courses through the CIC Courseshare program. Here is David Wild giving a guest lecture on a UM Pharmaceutical Engineering course:
