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Elements™ of Science Education

Joint PerkinElmer and University of Illinois -Springfield pilot on collaborative chemistry.

Nic Encina, PerkinElmer

Layne Morsch, PhD, University of Illinois Springfield

March 18th, 2014 – ACS Dallas

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Intro: Nic Encina

History & Trends

Review of PerkinElmer Elements

Overview of Pilot

Pilot: Dr. Layne Morsch

University of Illinois Springfield

Future opportunities

Agenda

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Technology is ubiquitous:

Laptops, Mobile, Tablets, Wearables, Home, etc

Information has become social:

Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, etc

Today’s kids expect it, and if it’s not an app or on a

website somewhere then it’s not worth knowing.

Need to engage students in a way that feels

modern yet natural.

Software is Everywhere

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The way that students engage with science is static and

dated.

This affects their

perspective.

Which affects how

they learn.

It also affects how

they interact with

their professors.

Ultimately, it leads to an overall negative experience.

And Yet…

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But Science is Evolving

OLD

NEW

Mainframe Cloud

Centralized Distributed

Concrete Virtual

Isolated Social

Secretive Public

Local

LabsGlobalization

Distributed

ResearchTechnology

Social &

Immediate

DistributingDiscovery

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Today’s research is

possible due to

yesterday’s

discoveries.

We are constantly

losing valuable

data.

Imagine the overall

cost of this data

loss.

Source: The Atlantic, Dec 19, 2013

Science is Additive

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A modern learning environment that delivers information

how students are accustomed to consuming it.

A platform that addresses the deficiencies in today’s

research labs and teaches future researchers the skills and

habits that will

empower them.

New technologies that

make today’s science

curriculum relevant

and exciting.

We Need:

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So What Can We Do To Create A Better Learning Environment?

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• Create an online collaborative platform for science where students can absorb material and upload their own data.

• Coordination by Design Model research workflows

Integrate across disciplines

Make science immediate and social

Provide an additional medium of communication

• We created an environment that will feel natural to students familiar with apps, cloud, social.

Software as a Service (Saas)

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Modeling Research Workflows

System Record

Compound Protein

Protocol

Reactants & Reagents

References Tool compound

Chemist Biologist

EvolutionaryApplications

elements pages workflows SOP’s

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Let’s bring modern technologies that enhance student

engagement into the classroom.

Science can be interesting, relevant & cool.

Start In The Classroom

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Elements Pilot –University of Illinois Springfield - Education PerspectiveBackground and Framework

Elements Overview

Intuitive to set up

Sharing for research or teaching

Flexible for many experimental designs

– From very simple experiments to complex

Dashboard

Login Screen shows materials on left

Prompts in the middle

Creating New Experiments

Can create from a blank layout

Or use a template you have created

Deliver Lab Material

The experiment can be used to deliver background and instructions to the students

Questions can be included for the students to answer (shown in red)

ChemDraw Integration

There is a ChemDraw element that allows for drawing reaction schemes, mechanisms and products

Lab Procedure

Students can write their detailed lab procedure just as they would in a paper lab notebook

Incorporate Spectra into the Notebook

Pdf files of Spectra can be uploaded into the notebook

Elements windows can be arranged full width or shared

Incorporate Spreadsheets into the Notebook

Excel spreadsheets can be uploaded into the notebook

Sharing Experiments and Notebooks

Collaborators can be invited to share a single experiment or an entire notebook

Permissions for each collaborator can be set

Pilot Testing

Students have begun using Elements in place of their carbonless copy lab notebooks

Instructor shares a template, which students can use to create their experiment

All student experiments are created in a shared folder – allowing for grading

Teaching Advantages Students cannot lose their lab notebook

Students cannot “forget” to turn in lab

Students cannot claim to have completed lab if not finished

Students can be asked to create and organize their own experiment

Integration of pictures (TLC, product crystals) and spectra into lab notebook

Ideas for Future Development Spreadsheet, graphing incorporation

Multiple text Elements usable for a variety of uses– Questions to be answered

– Adding a gradable rubric

– Student analysis of spectral peaks

Multiple ChemDraw Elements– Reaction scheme

– Mechanisms

– Product structure along with spectra

– Apparatus drawing templates

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Acknowledgements

The New Speed of Science

• Tanya Tan, laboratory instructor, University of Illinois Springfield

• Kara McElwrath, Assistant Director of Client Services, University of Illinois

Springfield

• Brian Gilman, PerkinElmer

• Hans Keil, PerkinElmer