Preface
Welcome to Chemistry: Atoms First 2e, an OpenStax resource. This textbook was written to increase student access to high-quality learning materials, maintaining the highest standards of academic rigor at little or no cost.
The Creation of this Book
This textbook was created as part of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project, facilitated by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and funded by a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education.
This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond by creating materials that can be adopted for dual enrollment environments. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time.
The cohort-developed OER course materials are released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others. This includes a corresponding course available in MoodleNet and Canvas Commons that can be imported to other Learning Management System platforms. For access/questions, contact Affordable Learning Louisiana.
If you are adopting this textbook, we would be glad to know of your use via this brief survey.
Adaptation Statement
This book is an adaption of the OpenStax textbook Chemistry: Atoms First 2e, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license.
Senior Contributing Authors
Paul Flowers, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Contributing Authors
The following changes were made to this book as a whole:
H5P activities/multimedia were inserted into sections to reinforce concepts.
Chapter 5: H5P activities authored and contributed by John B. Hopkins
Chapter 8: H5P activities authored and contributed by John B. Hopkins
Chapter 9: H5P activities taken from Chemistry 109 Fall 2021 by John Moore; Jia Zhou; and Etienne Garand; contributed by Conrad Jones
Editors
- Esperanza Zenon, River Parishes Community College
- Conrad Jones, Southern University and A&M College
Review Statement
This textbook and its accompanying course materials went through at least two review processes:
- Peer reviewers, coordinated by Jared Eusea, River Parish Community College, used an online course development standard rubric for assessing the quality and content of each course to ensure that the courses developed through Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment support online learners in that environment. The evaluation framework reflects a commitment to accessibility and usability for all learners.
- Reviewers
- Melissa Parks
- Waneene Dorsey
- Jesse Walczak
- Reviewers
- The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) collaborated with LOUIS to review course materials and ensure their appropriateness for dual enrollment audiences. Review criteria were drawn from factors that apply across dual enrollment courses and subject areas, such as determining appropriate reading levels, assessing the fit of topics and examples for high school DE students, applying high-level principles for quality curriculum design, including designing for accessibility, appropriate student knowledge checks, and effective scaffolding of student tasks and prior knowledge requirements, addressing adaptability and open educational practices, and principles related to inclusion and representational social justice.
- Reviewers
- Cody Lewis
- Jessica Dolecheck
- Reviewers
