Achieving a Holistic Web in the Chemistry Curriculum

Introduction The Impact of the Web on the Chemistry Curriculum 99 Background The Trend Towards an Accumulation of Acrobat 101 

Since its emergence more than twelve years ago, the World-Wide Web has impacted upon undergraduate and graduate level chemical education in both obvious and more subtle ways. By liberating information from its physical containers, it has changed the manner in which a chemistry-based curriculum might be 

Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK 

Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry, Vol. 3 ISSN 1574-1400, D01 10.1016/S1574-I400(07)03007-1 

The perspective from an educator s point of view may be rather different. For them, the Web may be perceived as a convenient and ecologically friendly avoidance of the photocopier and the physical medium of paper. However, does electronic delivery of shrink-wrapped lecture-sized bundles of notes really liber- 

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