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In this video blog, Dr. Rau is providing brief, informal overviews of the lab's research studies. To stay up to date, subscribe to the lab's YouTube channel.

Learn more about the vlog in this interview!

54 - Collaborations with STEM experts (08/11/2022)
In this video, I reflect on interdisciplinary collaboration with STEM experts, drawing on examples from my last video on misinterpretations of chemistry visualizations.

53 - Misinterpretations of chemistry visualizations (08/10/2022)
This video provides examples from a recent study about students’ misconceptions about energy diagrams, a commonly used visualization in chemistry.

52 - Collaborative learning with visual representations in chemistry (07/11/2022)
When students collaborate, they encounter impasses. This video describes a study of how students use visual representations to navigate impasses.

51 - Supporting learning with novel representations in future learning materials (06/13/2022)
Does support for learning with visual representations enhance students’ ability to learn better with new visuals they encounter in new instructional materials? This video presents a study tackling that question.

50 - Sequencing physical versus virtual manipulatives in chemistry learning (06/08/2022)
How should instruction sequence physical and virtual manipulatives? And when and why do sequences matter? In this video, I present results from an experiment where we compared sequences of different versions of physical and virtual manipulatives and investigate how they affect students’ learning.

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