The Committee on Computers in Chemical Education (CCCE) is recruiting division members interested in participating in the following programs and activities. Please contact the listed point people directly via e-mail if you are interested: 

Contributing to our efforts to develop written recommendations for “Best Practices for Use of AI in Chemistry Education.” We are looking for people who wish to help with the production and review of the document(s), help organize and run a symposium at the Spring 2025 ACS meeting, or participate in the symposium. For more information please contact Derek Behmke.

Contributing to our efforts to organize a symposium or symposia at the Fall 2025 ACS meeting related to using virtual reality tools in chemistry education. For more information or to get involved please contact C. Karen Fortune. 

Offering at your institution or being involved in the development of an Online Chemistry Course (OLCC) tentatively titled “Data Chemistry and Machine Learning”. This course is meant to allow the teaching of material outside the expertise of the faculty at an institution, while helping them to develop some expertise in the area. The target for the first offering is Fall 2025. Materials used for an OLCC in 2019 may be found at: https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Intercollegiate_Courses/Cheminformatics. For more information or to get involved please contact Bob Belford. 

Hosting an asynchronous online discussion of a thematic group of draft (preprint) chemical education related publications, with the goal of using the discussions to help shepherd the works to final publication. This is essentially an asynchronous online conference. Our goal is to develop an updated version of the CCCE’s ConfChems (https://confchem.ccce.divched.org/confchem_archive), most likely hosted on a modern preprint server (e.g. ChemXriv.org). For more information or to get involved please contact Jonathan Gutow (gutow@uwosh.edu). 

Helping to develop and offer short courses (probably online) to help chemical educators become familiar with computing tools/skills useful to chemists. For more information please contact Jonathan Gutow (gutow@uwosh.edu).