The ETX Center, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative, is creating general chemistry courseware to address equity gaps in first-year chemistry courses. With a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, the project aims to address inequitable outcomes that are in a large part a result of chemistry instruction that is not relevant or responsive to the diversity of learners.
The effort will incorporate materials and findings from demonstrably successful chemistry efforts from the two projects, including the Center for Education Through Exploration’s Critical Chemistry and Open Learning Initiative’s General Chemistry I and II. The course will be built on the Torus platform, developed by CMU, which offers open, interactive courseware for better learning outcomes and enables research and experimentation.
