3D chemistry - platform and app for classroom use and teaching - digitalization
e-learning
At a glance
- Project leader : Petra Irène Lustenberger
- Co-project leader : Dr. Andri Schütz
- Project team : Andreas Hauser, Davide Stallone
- Project budget : CHF 31'570
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : Internal
- Contact person : Andri Schütz
Description
Three-dimensional imagination is highly relevant for
understanding the fundamentals of chemistry at university level.
Especially when drawing molecular structures, it is important that
students are able to imagine molecules/salts with the right
geometry, so that the correct functioning in
environment/biology/chemistry can be deduced.
So far, model kits have been used in teaching. Due to the
increasing number of students, this learning method is no longer
useful. To enable students to better understand and memorize the
chemical and biological structures, an app for Android and iOs has
been developed in cooperation between the Institute for Chemistry
and Biotechnology ICBT and the Institute for Applied Simulations
IAS at ZHAW.
On the one hand, the project aims at facilitating and supplementing
the understanding of chemical processes in the environmental field.
On the other hand, the students will be enabled to visualize
chemical structures independent of specific (and expensive)
software.
The project was supported and financed by funding for e-learning
from the ZHAW (Department LSFM).
Further information
- https://www.zhaw.ch/3dchemie
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.zhaw.ias.threedchemie&hl=de_CH
- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/3d-chemie/id1441623798?mt=8
Publications
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Schütz, Andri; Lustenberger, Petra Irène,
2020.
«3D-Moleküle mit einer App visualisieren».
Transfer.
2020(1).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20417