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Prepare with CARE

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Project Description

Each year the Chemistry department teaches service courses in General, Organic, and Biochemistry to students from a multitude of departments. For many of these students, the five-course sequence (two general chemistry, two organic chemistry, and one biochemistry course) is either required for their major or their pre-health aspirations. As with many disciplines, while these courses approach the topic of chemistry from very different perspectives, they nonetheless rely heavily on a foundation of prerequisite skills that are taught in the previous courses.

Currently, students are expected to review and re-learn important prerequisite skills on their own, and the resources for doing that crucial review can oftentimes be difficult to locate. The goal of this project is to help students to Prepare with CARE (Chemistry Active-learning Resources for Educators) for their upper-level chemistry courses.

In the first stage of the CARE project, novel content (videos, worksheets, self-paced learning assessments) are being developed, assessed, and deployed to support students who will be taking Organic chemistry at Boston University. In Summer 2020, we are partnering with the Educational Resource Center (ERC) to deliver these modules as OrgoPrep 2.0. The completely new OrgoPrep 2.0 will feature the self-study materials developed by the CARE project, as well as live webinars over the summer.  

The eventual goal is to have a fully-functioning suite of materials that will enable faculty and students to select and utilize carefully curated and targeted materials for getting ready for upper-division courses including organic chemistry (stage 1), biochemistry (stage 2), and related disciplines (biology and geology, stage 3).

Publications

October 2020

  • Step back, translate, extend: Addressing misconceptions relating to energy and free energy in cellular reactions via active‐learning videos
  • Incorporating an Online Interactive Video Platform to Optimize Active Learning and Improve Student Accountability through Educational Videos

Project Team

Lightning Talk Binyomin Abrams

Binyomin Abrams

Binyomin Abrams is the Director of General Chemistry and Master Lecturer in the Chemistry Department at Boston University. He graduated with his Ph.D. from New York University, and has been a faculty member at BU since 2008.

Dr. Abrams’s primary interests are in teaching chemistry and research in the field of chemical education—developing novel approaches for teaching chemistry and studying how students best learn. He has developed new courses in the Chemistry department, in the Core Curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences, and interdisciplinary courses with the departments of Biology and the undergraduate program in Neuroscience. In 2010, he received the Templeton Award for Excellence in student advising from the College of Arts and Sciences and, in 2015, Boston University awarded him the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Surya Pulukuri

Surya Pulukuri (CAS ’21; MED ’25) is a junior at Boston University, majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and is part of the Modular Medical Integrated Curriculum (MMEDIC) program. After completing General Chemistry (CH109 and CH110) in his first year at BU, Surya was selected to become a learning assistant for general chemistry labs (CH109/110) and then general chemistry discussions (in CH101 and CH102).

In addition to his work as a learning assistant, Surya also engages computational research in immunology, modeling viral protein-protein interactions in the context of HIV. In his free time, he enjoys playing/teaching chess, making or designing origami, and exploring the wilderness.

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Daniela Torres

Daniela  (CAS ’22) is a junior at Boston University, majoring in Neurobiology. After completing General Chemistry (CH101 and CH102) in her first year at BU, Dani participated in the CH101/102 Learning Assistant program in her sophomore year and then again during the summer of 2020.

Dani was also an OrgoPrep leader during the spring of 2020. Now, she is working to develop video lessons and modules for the new and improved summer OrgoPrep 2.0 program – one of the big parts of the CARE project. 

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Educational Resource Center

The Educational Resource Center (ERC) is Boston University’s academic support center and is available to all BU students. Programs range from Peer Tutoring and Writing Assistance, to Academic Skills Advising, Academic Support Workshops, and Language Link discussion groups. The ERC wanted to re-invigorate an existing program, OrgoPrep. With the partnership of Dr. Abrams and CARE, the ERC has launched a new version — OrgoPrep 2.0. The ERC and CARE worked together to create a new curriculum with a new structure to be held in a new time of year. These changes were made with our students, contemporary pedagogical tools, and BU’s chemistry curriculums in mind. www.bu.edu/erc/

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