The committee name, the Committee on Computers in Education, is a good indicator of the committee duties. This committee focuses on supporting DivCHED members usage of computers in teaching their classes and in helping them to access resources to improve their teaching. We try to support topical symposia and workshops at ACS meetings and oversee the long running ConfChems and periodic Online Chemistry Classes (a recent example was the OLCC on Cheminformatics).
Because of work issues that pulled our past chair and others away from the committee, nothing has been done in the previous two years until this January, when new officers were sorted out. Most recently we have submitted a general symposium on computers in chemical education to BCCE 2024 and began coordinating with other organizers of related symposia at BCCE 2024.
A subcommittee of the CCCE is developing plans to continue ConfChems in an updated version that we hope will require less ongoing maintenance and will be visible and accessible to more people. The preliminary idea is to leverage the infrastructure of ChemRxiv to provide archival storage and a discussion platform. This subcommittee is also looking into organizing a rerun of the Cheminformatics OLCC, as there have been some requests for this. We have begun coordinating with organizers of related symposia at BCCE 2024. To increase the number of people with direct contact to the CCCE (and possibly recruit future members) they have all been invited to our closed meeting at the BCCE. Most have accepted the invitation. We have begun discussing how we might provide a list of with access to resources and best practices for members wishing to use computers in chemed. Along these lines, the committee is also discussing trying to develop recommendations related to Generative AI and Virtual Reality.
Committee was inactive. However, there is supposed to be some money that is for the use of this Committee only as it was collected in support of ConfChems.