19^th International CODATA Conference
Category: e-Learning

eLearning and Visualization of Data

Dr. Horst Boegel (boegel@chemie.uni-halle.de)
Martin-Luther-University, Department of Chemistry, Germany

The World Wide Web technology provides fast access to many data-resources. eLearning becomes more and more important to improve traditional education and opens new ways for presentation of knowledge. Interactive visualization of data is the way for deriving information from presented data.

We developed an e-learning server-platform for chemical content, which is based on:

• XML, DTD, CSS, our molecular database and Java-Servlets
• 3D-world of molecular structures (Chime Plug-in)
• Java applets (HMO calculation)
• computational methods (MNDO and "ab initio" quantum chemistry) " worldwide teamwork in computational chemistry using our Java Web Start

Technology modules and databases for research and file-archiving " virtual reality (VRML) scenarios " animations of structures, molecular orbitals and reactions

The available methods for molecular calculations are online accessible for collaborative teamwork among the students. The learning units are designed for "discovered learning" and enable for doing research as well with the provided methods and tools.