Abstract This paper describes a systematic application of courseware to help meet three educational challenges: provide remedial education for poorly prepared students; provide a stimulating and challenging learning environment for well prepared and highly motivated students: and minimize the time spent by instructors on clerical tasks. Five applications of computers to the undergraduate chemistry curriculum have evolved during the past decade at the University of Pittsburgh as a result of this work: a library of computer-assisted instruction lessons: a computer-assisted test construction system: a library of simulation and data reduction programs: a library of computer-managed instruction programs: and a senior-level elective course. “Numerical Methods in Chemistry”. This paper contains a discussion of this software and its use in several chemistry courses.
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