{ACS General Chemistry Textbook Project} - development of an ACS-sponsored text published by Freeman in 2001. (This site disappeared in 2005; link is to an archive.) See the current Freeman student user site.

Physical Chemistry On Line - this collaborative project offers numerous resources (including Instructor's guides) to support the teaching of physical chemistry. See their projects list for information about specific topics.

Molecular Logic Project - The goal of this project is to improve the ability of all students to understand fundamental biological phenomena in terms of the interactions of atoms and molecules. The Molecular Logic project aims to do this by enhancing biology courses with guided explorations of powerful atomic and molecular computational models. These models are embedded in an easily implemented database linked to both typical textbooks and standards. Over one hundred models of chemical and biological phenomena are available.

Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) is a program for networked computers, that enables frequent writing assignments without any increase in instructor work. This NSF-sponsored project was developed at UCLA, and the materials and technology are used in their General Chemistry course, and in those of several other consortium schools. http://www.liv.ac.uk/ctichem/c3intro.html

ChemSense is a NSF-funded project to study students' understanding of chemistry and develop software and curriculum to help students investigate chemical systems and express their ideas through animation. The project also develops software for exploring ideas in chemistry and for presenting scientific data.

ChemConnections is an NSF-funded project to develop a series of modules of 1-4 weeks duration that emphasize active learning at the first- and second year college levels. The titles center around topics of general and environmental interest such as biomass fuels, cholesterol, solar energy, origin of life, photography, etc. Apparently, the plan is to distribute these materials through a commercial publisher.

The ChemCollective - a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams. Submissions from others are invited.

ChemCOM Resource Center ChemCom® is a chemistry curriculum written for secondary school students by the American Chemical Society (ACS). It attempt to enhance science literacy by emphasizing chemistry's impact on society. Each of the eight units revolves around a societal question which creates a need to know chemistry to find a solution. The context of each question is a community: local, workplace, national,or global. chemistry presented to the students builds upon the same vocabulary, thinking skills, problem solving and lab techniques as most traditional introductory chemistry courses.

{Chemistry Courseware Consortium} ("C-CUBED") This project has been developing software for use in chemistry teaching as part of the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP)in the UK. This site features news of consortium activities; on-line feedback, information request and order forms; a product catalogue with full module descriptions and example screenshots; a frequently asked question (FAQ) file with the latest information on technical and implementation issues; tips on how to get the best out of the software; aeneral information about the project and the services that it offers. (This site disappeared in early 2007; link is to an archive)

Chemistry Hypermedia Project A NSF-sponsored project at Virginia Technical U.

C-Mor (Chemistry Modules of Richmond) This group at the University of Richmond (VA) is developing CD-based materials relating to lecture and laboratory work at the first-year college level.

The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational R&D organization that produces high-quality educational software that is offered free of charge. Most of it is open-sourced so you can adapt it to your own needs or use it as the basis for your own software development efforts. Of special interest to Chemistry are their Molecular Literacy Project, Molecular Rover Project, and Science of Atoms and Molecules Project— all of which are described elsewhere on this page.

Consortium for Technology in Teaching Chemistry (CTTC) is run by USC for Southern California teachers and institutions who are interested in implementing computer technologies in their high school science classrooms, in order to pool resources, share ideas, develop strategies, and provide continuing education.

Contemporary Chemistry - (Contrad Trumbore, U of Delaware) combines an introductory chemistry textbook with over 170 animations that clarify concepts in an entertaining and interactive manner to understand the chemistry-related political, cultural and health issues in their real lives. These issues include pollution, global warming, and the many issues surrounding the production and use of energy.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science The ENC provides through its home page a database of descriptions of more than 6,000 educational products (mostly K-12), including those supported by NSF, an on-line collection of educational documents and ENC publications, a database of lessons and activities for teaching science and mathematics, access to resource people to answer questions about science and mathematics education, the Digital Dozen (links to educational WWW sites), and information on grant programs for educational projects.

{Graduate Postcertificaiton Teacher Training in Chemistry} - this NSF-supported project directed by Prof. David Brooks of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln offers Web-based minicourses in a number of Chemistry subjects. (Link is to the last archived version, Dec 2006.)

INVSEE (Interactive Nano-Visualization in Science and Engineering Education) IN-VSEE is a consortium engaged in creating an interactive site to develop a new educational thrust based on remote operation of advanced microscopes and nano-fabrication tools coupled to powerful surface characterization  methods. As of 2000, there were about 17 modules covering such topics as iridescence, sphere packing, biological and engineered materials, and "Why does a light bulb burn out" which allows one to design a remote experiment to test alternative filament materials.

IrYdium Project - Carnegie-Mellon University. "The IrYdium Project is working to combine Network Computing and Remote Database Technology into educational tools that can be easily integrated into introductory chemistry courses nationwide. " This project has been supplanted by the ChemCollective listed above, but the site still contains some useful links.

Learning Online Network with CAPA - This NSF-sponsored project builds on the CAPA on-line assessment system developed at Michigan State University, and which has been used by numerous Chemistry departments. The intention is to extend this system (along with MSU's "Lecture Online" facility) into a dynamic online collaborative community of teachers and publishers.

MathMol MathMol is being developed at theNYU/ACF Scientific Visualization Center in association with the NYU Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation, District 2 in Manhattan and the YMCA Beacon Technology Center . The purpose of MathMol is to provide the K-12 educational community with information and materials dealing with the rapidly growing fields of molecular modeling and 3-D visualization. As the program gains momentum, databases and activities will be posted for educational use. Many activities will permit students to work interactively with molecular and mathematical images.

Miami University Center for Chemical Education A collaborative project involving K-12 through graduate level and interdisciplinary initiaves. Development of credit coursework, program handbooks and other materials.

Molecular Rover Project develops interactive environments of atomic-scale systems that allow the student to explore forces, structures, and motions from a microscopic viewpoint. "If we could mount a video camera on an atom like what NASA did on a Mars rover, what would we see? This is the mission of the Molecular Rover... With the central idea that the user can participate in a simulation by playing the role of an atom or a chemical group, a lot of new things can be borrowed from the gaming industry".

The Molecular Science Project is an NSF systemic-reform initiative. It has developed server-based instructional materials for lower-division chemistry courses, including Web-based cooperative reading/writing Calibrated Peer Review projects.

The Molecular Literacy Project (a Concord MA consortium) is working to enhance science and technology teaching in grades 10-14 by providing Molecular Literacy content in support of careers in biotechnology and nanotechnology. A few typical units cover polymerization, chromatography, DNA-to-protein synthesis, and van der Waals interactions. Two components of this project, Molecular Logic and Molecular Workbench, offer free open-source software.

MultiCHEM - Multimedia innovations for College Chemistry instruction. Home of the well-known "Airbags R Us" simulation. Also some useful building blocks for Web-based tutorial program.

Multi-Initiative Dissemination (MID) Project introduces faculty to the four NSF Systemic-Change Intiatives in Chemistry. Site http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~midp/ disappeared in mid-2007; unable to access archive.

NanoSense develops materials and curriculum units to help high school students understand nanoscale phenomena and to integrate these concepts into the traditional curriculum.

Nanotechnology - Exploring the Nanoworld contains a wealth of information and links to all aspects of this growing field, with special resources for students and teachers at both the K-12 and college levels. A NSF-funded project of at U. Wisconsin - Madison.

National Computational Science Education Consortium offers a number of nicely-done instructional modules on chemistry-related topics, mostly aimed at the elementary-middle school level.

Physical Chemistry with a Purpose - The goal of this NSF funded project is to produce a trial set of materials that can be used in physical chemistry courses to more tightly connect the topics introduced in available texts to the realm of modern chemical research.

Physical Chemistry OnLine (PCOL) is a consortium dedicated to improving and enriching the learning experience for students of physical chemistry, and Brownian motion.

Process Workshops for General Chemistry is a project that is developing a new, student-centered model for instruction in the Chemistry Department at SUNY Stony Brook. The approach emphasizes both subject mastery and skill development in key process areas. The current focus is on introductory chemistry and its mathematical prerequisites, though the approach is general and applicable in any discipline.

Science of Atoms and Molecules (SAM) uses the Molecular Workbench to explor atomic and molecular interactions. Some typical components are hydrophilic/hydrophobic interactions, molecular self-assembly

Scottish Chemistry Online Teaching Service - this site contains a large collection of materials, including demonstrations, that are being assembled to aid the teaching of Chemistry in Scottish schools.

Starburstt Consortium links primarily-undergraduate universities for sharing technology relating to instrumentation (crystallography, NMR, MS), nanotechnology and medicinal chemistry.

{UC Berkeley Digital Chem 1A Lab Manual} profides an interesting example of integrating technology into a large-enrollment course. It "seeks to make the extensive online course materials used to teach General Chemistry at UC Berkeley freely available to the large online community." (Withdrawn: link is to April 2007 archive.)

see also: Digital Chem1a Study: Costs, Culture, and Complexity: An Analysis of Technology Enhancements in a Large Lecture Course at UC Berkeley. As is usually the case with even the richest institutions, this project seems to be dependent on external support from NSF and other sources.

Web Science Project seeks to adapt the Just-in-Time Teaching method (JiTT) to science and mathematics courses. The underlying method is to use feedback between the Web and the classroom to increase interactivity and allow rapid response to students' problems. The site has links to several IUPUI courses, including one in Chemistry.

Workshop Chemistry - This project is a coalition of faculty,  students, and learning specialists organized around a peer led, team learning model of teaching and problem solving. Workshops have been introduced in several different chemistry courses at a variety of institutions with the goals of increasing the number of students who find success and interest in introductory science courses and enhancing their team-work and communication skills.