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Societies and Divisions relevant to Chemical Engineering Education

• American Society for Engineering Education
  • ASEE Chemical Engineering Division
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • AIChE Education Division

Engineering Education Journals - Related to Chemical Engineering

• Chemical Engineering Education Journal
  • Archive of Chemical Engineering Education Papers
• American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
  • Journal of Engineering Education - ASEE
  • Advances in Engineering Education - ASEE
  • ASEE Prism
  • Computers in Education Journal
• International Journal of Engineering Education

Resources for Online Education

• Best practices in online teaching (Arizona State University) 
• Semester online teaching guide (Purdue University) 
• Harvard University’s Best Practices 
• Online Advice Guide (Chronicle of Higher Education) 
• Elearning Industry Top Ten 
• Adapting Courses for Online teaching (Johns Hopkins University) 
• Effective Online Teaching (Inside Higher Ed) 
• Preparing screencasts
  • Why Prepare Screencasts?
  • Advantages of Screencasts for Explaining Diagrams/Graphs 
  • Using Screencasts to Explain Equations  
  • Tips for Making Effective Screencasts  
  • Before-After Editing: brief overview of how to edit screencasts
  • Screencasting Basics: tips you might not find anywhere else
  • More information on using Camtasia and Microsoft OneNote

Other Useful Links and Resources

• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) National Effective Teaching Institute
• Richard Felder Resources in Science and Engineering Education (North Carolina State University)
• LearnChemE: Chemical engineering education resources (University of Colorado Boulder)
• AIChE Concept Warehouse (Tufts University)
• Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (University of British Columbia): Extensive resources for transforming courses to active learning.
• The Leonardo Project (University of California Berkeley) Educational materials (99 reports) on the interface between chemical technology and society.  A way to introduce relevant social and humanistic content into chemical engineering courses.
• PBS STEM Education Resource Center
• Engineering.com
• Gradescope: Software that streamlines grading, while also providing better feedback to students
• QR-ED: A repository of more than 1,000 Problems and Questions for Instructors of Engineering and Science (Trine University)