Chemistry education : best practices, opportunities and trends / edited by Javier Garcia-Martinez and Elena Serrano-Torregrosa ; with a foreword by Peter Atkins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Chemistry education : a global endeavour. Chemistry education and human activity / Peter Mahaffy -- Chemistry education that makes connections : our responsibilities / Cathy Middlecamp -- The connection between the local chemistry curriculum and chemistry terms in the global news : the glocalization perspective / Mei-Hung Chiu and Chin-Cheng Chou -- Changing perspectives on the undergraduate chemistry curriculum / Martin J. Goedhart -- Empowering chemistry teachers' learning : practices and new challenges / Jan H. van Driel and Onno de Jong -- Lifelong learning : approaches to increasing the understanding of chemistry by everybody / John K. Gilbert and Ana Sofia Afonso -- Part II. Best practices and innovative strategies. Using chemistry education research to inform teaching strategies and design of instructional materials / Renée Cole -- Research on problem solving in chemistry / George M. Bodner -- Do real work, not homework / Brian P. Coppola -- Context-based teaching and learning on school and university level / Ilka Parchmann, Karolina Broman, Maike Busker, and Julian Rudnik -- Active learning pedagogies for the future of global chemistry education / Judith C. Poë -- Inquiry-based student-centered instruction / Ram S. Lamba -- Flipping the chemistry classroom with peer instruction / Julie Schell and Eric Mazur -- Innovative community-engaged learning projects : from chemical reactions to community interactions / Claire McDonnell -- The role of conceptual integration in understanding and learning chemistry / Keith S. Taber -- Learners ideas, misconceptions, and challenge / Hans-Dieter Barke -- The role of language in the teaching and learning of chemistry / Peter E. Childs, Silvija Markic, and Marie C. Ryan -- Using the cognitive conflict strategy with classroom chemistry demonstrations / Robert (Bob) Bucat -- Chemistry education for gifted learners / Manabu Sumida and Atsushi Ohashi -- Experimental experience through project-based learning / Jens Josephsen and Søren Hvidt -- The development of high-order learning skills in high school chemistry laboratory : "skills for life" / Avi Hofstein -- Chemistry education through microscale experiments / Beverly Bell, John D. Bradley, and Erica Steenberg -- Part III. The role of new technologies. Twenty-first century skills : using the web in chemistry education / Jan Apotheker and Ingeborg Veldman -- Design of dynamic visualizations to enhance conceptual understanding in chemistry courses / Jerry P. Suits -- Chemistry apps on smartphones and tablets / Ling Huang -- E-learning and blended learning in chemistry education / Michael K. Seery and Christine O'Connor -- Wiki technologies and communities : new approaches to assessing individual and collaborative learning in the chemistry laboratory / Gwendolyn Lawrie and Lisbeth Grøndahl -- New tools and challenges for chemical education : mobile learning, augmented reality, and distributed cognition in the dawn of the social and semantic web / Harry E. Pence, Antony J. Williams, and Robert E. Belford.