The format will enable either stand-alone instruction or instructor managed instruction. The latter mode enables use of selected modules, units, or elements. Our educational strategy consists of constructivist, discovery-based learning using large data bases of real data. Students must articulate ideas, debate ideas, and publish models. Electronic bulletin boards provide an excellent forum for publication and for peer evaluation.
Electronic portfolios provide a new student assessment vehicle.
Information technology can deliver student experience in large doses, and experience develops scientific thinking as students organize and systematize data and information. In these activities they extract meaning from data. They learn to amend and to discard models in favor of better models. Publishing models gives students a key insight in how science works. Traditions Program is to facilitate a cultural change in Chemistry Education at the college level.