Adapting to the COVID-19 Online Transition: Reflections in a General Chemistry Sequence Taught by Multiple Instructors with Diverse Pedagogies

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00752
• Publication Date: 2020-08-17T15:17:56Z
• Authors: Omar Villanueva; Derek A. Behmke; J. D. Morris; Rashad Simmons; Chantelle Anfuso; C. M. Woodbridge; Ying Guo
• Keywords: Pandemic; 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Sequence (biology)

Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) is an open-access, four-year, public liberal arts college that emphasizes excellent instruction through active learning and small class sizes. The COVID-19 pandemic presented unique challenges to GGC general chemistry instructors as they sought actively engage students in a new online setting. We reflect on the faced by our during this analyzing student surveys, instructor reflections, grade distributions across 20 sections of 1 2 taught 15 different instructors. consider most important technology rapidly adopted then present three main themes found reflections implications for going forward.