Open Educational Resources: CHEMISTRY

Chemistry (Lumen Learning)

• from SUNY, presents the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them, meeting the scope and sequence of most general chemistry courses

Course Hero: Boundless Chemistry

• courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by third parties under a Creative Commons license
• Faculty contribute resources such as assignments, quizzes, case studies, lecture notes, and more to the site

ecampusOntario: Chemistry

• assessments, interactive activities, learning resources, instructional objects and more from Ontario’s ecampus repository

GALILEO Open Learning Materials: Chemistry

• open courses and ancillary teaching materials from the University System of Georgia

MERLOT Course materials: Chemistry

• a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community

MIT Open Courseware Chemistry

• courses, materials & teaching resources from MIT

Open Course Library: Chemistry

• course materials from the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges; “free to download, edit, & use”

Open Learning Initiative: Biochemistry

• an introductory course from Carnegie Mellon, designed for both biology and chemical engineering majors; includes a molecular simulation to explore the effect of molecular interactions on the biochemical properties of systems

Open Michigan: Chemistry

• OER course materials from the University of Michigan

OpenYale Course: Chemistry

• introductory courses focused on current theories of structure and mechanism in organic chemistry, their historical development, and their basis in experimental observation

Saylor Academy: Chemistry

• PDF and HTML versions of textbook
• content authored by Saylor Academy is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license

Teaching Commons: Chemistry

• “curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more”

Applied Math & Science Education Repository - Chemistry

• a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use; part of the National Science Digital Library

LibreTexts Chemistry

• “Open Access textbook environment is under constant revision by students, faculty, and outside experts to supplant conventional paper-based books”

MERLOT Chemistry Portal

• many resources available for teaching and learning chemistry

OASIS: Chemistry

• OER textbooks, learning materials and objects, courses, activities and more

OER Commons: Chemistry

• a curated collection that includes curricular materials, textbooks, simulations, games, assessments and more

Pressbooks OER by Discipline Directory: Chemistry

• curated collection of links to textbooks, videos, course materials, and more

Teaching Commons: Chemistry

• “curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more”

ChemCollective

• a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests from Carnegie Mellon; funded by the National Science Foundation
• “Our software is available free of charge to all educators and students under the creative commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND)”

Chem Spider

• a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 63 million structures from hundreds of data sources

Chem Tool Box

• contains numerous scientific data

Chemical Education Xchange (ChemEd X)

• learning resources and forums for discussion and collaboration on an interactive platform

Chemistry 1 Lab Manual (Lumen Learning)

• from SUNY, accompanies college Chemistry courses and is used to support and assess knowledge acquired in the classroom setting to be applied in the real world

Chemix

• an online editor for drawing science lab diagrams and experiment apparatus

ChemReaX

• chemical reaction modeling and simulation app from ScienceBySimulation

ChemSims

• simulations from the National Science Foundation covering solubility, kinetics, atomic interactions, gas laws, equilibrium, acid base, photoelectric effect, and atomic emissions

ChemTube3D

• contains interactive 3D animations and structures

Digital Lab Techniques Manual (MIT)

• a series of videos designed to help users prepare for chemistry laboratory class

Interactive Periodic Table

• The Royal Society of Chemistry's interactive periodic table features history, alchemy, podcasts, videos, and data trends

Molecular Workbench

• visual, interactive simulations for teaching & learning science

NC State Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Teaching Laboratories - S.M.A.R.T. Lab Videos

• student-created videos for undergraduate organic chemistry courses, including lab techniques

NIST Chemistry Webbook

• provides access to data compiled and distributed by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program

Open Chemistry (OpenChem) Lecture Videos

• a full curriculum of recorded lectures covering undergraduate chemistry plus selected graduate topics from UCI Irvine

OpenOChem

• A freely available online homework system that allows users to create interactive questions, and then assemble them into activities such as sequential and adaptive quizzes and SlideDecks
• uses LTI, so that students and faculty members access it through their home institutions learning management systems (e.g., Moodle and Canvas)

OrgChem 101 Learning Lab

• a set of organic chemistry learning modules to explore organic chemistry concepts; from the University of Ontario; (CC BY-NC-SA)

PhET Interactive Simulations:Chemistry

•  from the University of Colorado, open source simulations

University of Oxford Podcasts: Chemistry

• educational podcasts from the University of Oxford

VR Molecules Pro

• an interactive simulation illustrating molecule vibration and rotation modes for twenty-four different molecules.licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 2.5 Canada License

Web Spectra -Spectroscopy Problem Solving

• this site provides 1H NMR and 13C NMR, DEPT, COSY and IR spectra of various compounds to interpret

Wolfram Demonstrations Project: General Chemistry

• License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; a collection of interactive visualizations