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Record W4413461724 · doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.5c00555

Reimagining Advanced Chemistry Education: A Community-based Approach to Course Design for Modern Learners

2025· article· en· W4413461724 on OpenAlexaff
Matthew A. Horwitz, Reem Al-Ahmad, Xing‐Feng Bai, Matteo Balletti, Peter Bellotti, Yael Ben‐Tal, Kathleen Cheasty, Craig S. Day, Patrick J. Deneny, K. Forbes, Emma Gogarnoiu, Phillip S. Grant, Riya Halder, Pol Hernández‐Lladó, Morgan Jouanneau, Vera Jost, Gabriele Laudadio, Chun Liu, Aidan P. Looby, Aitor Maestro, Terry McCallum, Maximilian D. Palkowitz, Joshua Paolillo, Matthew W. D. Perry, Julia C. Reisenbauer, César Reyes, Hayden A. Sharma, Fu Kit Sheong, Benjamin Thoma, Andrew V. Tran, Duc N. Tran, Francisco José Aguilar Troyano, Thomas Verheyen, Mark P. Walsh, Alicia Wagner, Emily R. Wearing, Georg Wuitschik

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Chemical Education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInnovative Teaching Methods
Canadian institutionsUniversity of OttawaCarbon Engineering (Canada)Canadian Bank Note Company (Canada)Discovery CentreUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCourse (navigation)Mathematics educationChemistry educationScience educationGeneral chemistryChemistryEngineering physicsComputer scienceEngineeringEngineering ethicsPsychologyPhysical chemistryEpistemologyQuality (philosophy)Philosophy

Abstract

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High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Chemistry education at the graduate level and beyond faces the formidable challenge of a boundless and constantly expanding frontier of knowledge on many fronts. While modern learners have an increasingly broad range of resources available at their disposal (including open access text-based references, online videos, training problems, and other digital learning materials), there are comparatively fewer such materials aimed at the highest levels of study. With the goal of producing widely accessible graduate-level learning content, we created a community-based approach to online course design that is easily digestible to meet the expectations of modern learners. Herein, we report the development of an open access Advanced Organic Chemistry video-based online course and several other specialized minicourses using the Synthesis Workshop YouTube channel.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.052

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.072
GPT teacher head0.453
Teacher spread0.382 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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