MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices

Augmented/virtual realities (ARs/VRs) promise to revolutionize STEM education. However, most easy-to-use tools are limited to static visualizations, which limits the approachable content, whereas more interactive and dynamic alternatives require costly hardware, preventing largescale use and evaluat...

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Autores principales: Cortés Rodríguez, Fabio, Frattini, Gianfranco, Krapp, Lucien F., Martínez-Hung, Hassan, Moreno, Diego M., Roldán, Mariana, Salomón, Jorge, Stemkoski, Lee, Traeger, Sylvain, Del Peraro, Matteo, Abriata, Luciano A.
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2022
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/2133/23414
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topic High School/Introductory Chemistry
Second-Year Undergraduate
Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Acids/Bases
Molecular Biology
Molecular Modeling
spellingShingle High School/Introductory Chemistry
Second-Year Undergraduate
Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Acids/Bases
Molecular Biology
Molecular Modeling
Cortés Rodríguez, Fabio
Frattini, Gianfranco
Krapp, Lucien F.
Martínez-Hung, Hassan
Moreno, Diego M.
Roldán, Mariana
Salomón, Jorge
Stemkoski, Lee
Traeger, Sylvain
Del Peraro, Matteo
Abriata, Luciano A.
MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices
topic_facet High School/Introductory Chemistry
Second-Year Undergraduate
Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Acids/Bases
Molecular Biology
Molecular Modeling
description Augmented/virtual realities (ARs/VRs) promise to revolutionize STEM education. However, most easy-to-use tools are limited to static visualizations, which limits the approachable content, whereas more interactive and dynamic alternatives require costly hardware, preventing largescale use and evaluation of pedagogical effects. Here, we introduce https://MoleculARweb.epfl.ch,a free, open-source web site with interactive AR webpage-based apps that work out-of-the-box in laptops, tablets, and smartphones, where students and teachers can naturally handle virtual objects to explore molecular structure, reactivity, dynamics, and interactions, covering topics from inorganic, organic, and biological chemistry. With these web apps, teachers and science communicators can develop interactive material for their lessons and hands-on activities for their students and target public, in person or online, as we exemplify. Thousands of accesses to moleculARweb attest to the ease of use; teacher feedback attests to the utility in online teaching and homework during a pandemic; and in-class plus online surveys show that users find AR engaging and useful for teaching and learning chemistry. These observations support the potential of AR in future education and show the large impact that modern web technologies have in democratizing access to digital learning tools, providing the possibility to mass-test the pedagogical effect of these technologies in STEM education.
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author Cortés Rodríguez, Fabio
Frattini, Gianfranco
Krapp, Lucien F.
Martínez-Hung, Hassan
Moreno, Diego M.
Roldán, Mariana
Salomón, Jorge
Stemkoski, Lee
Traeger, Sylvain
Del Peraro, Matteo
Abriata, Luciano A.
author_facet Cortés Rodríguez, Fabio
Frattini, Gianfranco
Krapp, Lucien F.
Martínez-Hung, Hassan
Moreno, Diego M.
Roldán, Mariana
Salomón, Jorge
Stemkoski, Lee
Traeger, Sylvain
Del Peraro, Matteo
Abriata, Luciano A.
author_sort Cortés Rodríguez, Fabio
title MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices
title_short MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices
title_full MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices
title_fullStr MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices
title_full_unstemmed MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices
title_sort molecularweb: a web site for chemistry and structural biology education through interactive augmented reality out of the box in commodity devices
publisher American Chemical Society
publishDate 2022
url http://hdl.handle.net/2133/23414
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