Help students gain the confidence they need to be successful problem solvers with Aktiv Chemistry’s groundbreaking technology, paired with the textbook of your choice — including integrated titles from Top Hat and OpenStax.
Take advantage of interactive Top Hat readings that check student comprehension as they learn material
For maximum student affordability, Aktiv Chemistry directly integrates with the OpenStax text of your choice
Aktiv Chemistry course content easily maps to any existing publisher textbook or other course materials
Aktiv is now integrated with four Top Hat Interactive eTexts for General and Organic Chemistry courses, which include embedded reading questions, problem solving videos, and simulations.
By employing a student-centered writing style, this textbook aims to help students understand atoms, ions, and molecules concepts before they encounter more challenging and complex material. Offering plenty of visuals, instructional and step-by-step problem-solving videos, interactive simulations and built-in assessment questions, the text is developed with active learning principles that foster better student engagement. This most recent revision includes a math supplement, a revised thermochemistry chapter, a new organic chemistry chapter and accessibility improvements to ensure all students have the best learning experience possible. With over 4,500 interactive questions, embedded videos and full customizability, this comprehensive, interactive textbook title is designed to help students build the critical thinking skills needed to succeed in chemistry. Written in a conversational tone and featuring problem-solving videos that work through the content step-by-step, this text empowers students to improve their overall understanding of chemistry instead of just memorizing abstract content. The textbook also emphasizes connections between course concepts and everyday life, helping students think practically to improve their mastery of the content.
Organic Chemistry: Mechanistic Patterns is the first introductory organic chemistry title that holistically focuses on a mechanistic approach, one that has proven to achieve a deeper understanding of chemical reactivity. This approach visualizes reactivity as a collection of patterns in electron movement, making it possible for students to describe why a reaction occurred and predict how a chemical will react, even if they have never seen a particular reaction before. The text takes great care to establish a progression of reactivity, from simple to complex, introducing functional groups as necessary, while focusing on the reaction at hand rather than the various things that each functional group does. Including Ghislain Deslongchamps’ acclaimed Organic ChemWare Learning Objects that bring static molecular representations to life, the goal of this textbook is to help students learn to think like chemists so they can be more successful in their studies.
This textbook is designed for Chemistry instructors who want an active, dynamic, and understandable approach to support their own efforts in the classroom. The conversational, relatable tone makes learning the difficult and abstract material easier for students, while “Keeping it Real” sections connect concepts to real-world applications. Plus, this ever-evolving textbook includes auto-graded questions, videos and 3D animations to provide students with a more visual understanding of abstract concepts.
Aktiv is proud to be a partner of OpenStax in order to deliver more affordable course materials for chemistry students.
General Chemistry students now have one button access directly to the OpenStax Chemistry or Chemistry Atoms textbooks when working on an Aktiv Chemistry problem. Access to learning content has never been easier.
Plus, Aktiv and OpenStax have come together to integrate the 10th edition of John McMurry’s industry-leading Organic Chemistry as a free, open resource textbook. This integration includes directly connected learning experiences in the Aktiv platform with the McMurry text to help students practice material in new and productive ways, and specially integrated problems and exercises from the text in the Aktiv content library.
Already using a particular textbook or OER with your students that you want to keep in place? No problem! Aktiv Chemistry was built as a textbook independent platform, enabling you to customize the order and fit of every problem and topic to your pedagogy of choice.
To help with this, Aktiv’s team of content experts has created library filters and pre-made assignments that fit exactly to many common publisher titles across General, Intro, Organic, GOB, and Biochemistry courses.
One of our Learning Specialists will give you a tour of the Aktiv Chemistry learning platforms and provide a free instructor playground account with access to the content library.
One of our Learning Specialists will give you a tour of the Aktiv Chemistry or Aktiv Mathematics learning platforms and provide a free instructor playground account with access to the content library.