McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, has partnered with CambridgeSoft to integrate ChemDraw - the molecular editor used by chemistry professionals - into McGraw-Hill Connect Chemistry. Connect Chemistry is a web-based assignment and assessment platform designed for organic chemistry courses. The collaboration between McGraw-Hill Education and CambridgeSoft marks the first time that the latter has worked with a publisher to develop a homework tool for students. CambridgeSoft is a provider of software and services for discovery, analysis and collaboration to the life sciences and chemical industries, academia and government.
McGraw-Hill Connect is a research-based, interactive assignment and assessment platform that incorporates cognitive science to customise the learning process. The online platform is based on McGraw-Hill's extensive, ongoing research of professors instructional processes and students study habits. It includes a variety of digital learning tools that enable professors to easily customise courses and allow students to learn and master content and succeed in the course.
Both students and professors are expected to benefit from the introduction of ChemDraw into Connect Chemistry. Students will be better able to practice drawing chemical structures, one of the subject's most important concepts, and professors will be able to more effectively test students knowledge, evaluate their progress, and deliver feedback.
McGraw-Hill and CambridgeSoft have been collaborating for over a year with more than 100 organic chemistry professors to create a functionally modified version of ChemDraw that focuses specifically on the scope of the course. The result is an accurate assessment and drawing tool that seeks to bring professional-grade quality to a challenging course area.
ChemDraw will be available for classroom use as a component of McGraw-Hill Connect Chemistry in the spring of 2011. It will initially be offered with three McGraw-Hill texts - Organic Chemistry 3rd edition, by Janice Smith; Organic Chemistry 8th edition, by Frank Carey and Robert Giuliano; and Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter & Change 6th edition, by Martin Silberberg.
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