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Web-Based OWL System Helps Students Learn Chemistry, Variety of Other Subjects

06/02/2008

TechCast at UMass: OWL, an online, Web-based learning system, is helping students across the country understand chemistry and a variety of other subjects. Listen to interviews with Peter Lillya, an emeritus professor of organic chemistry, and David M. Hart, director of the Center for Educational Software Development (CESD). In addition, Lisa Lockwood from the educational publisher Cengage Learning discusses how OWL is being used in many schools thanks to a licensing agreement with the UMass Amherst Office of Commercial Ventures & Intellectual Property (CVIP).

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