ChemPOV: Digitizing an Organic Chemistry Boardgame to Support Online Learning

Abstract

The rapid shift from traditional face-to-face (F2F) lesson to the online platform had resulted in student-student interactions, and student engagement to decrease. To solve these problems, the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Chemistry in collaboration with NUS Information Technology has designed an online board game, ChemPOV, to improve student engagement and student-student interactions for freshmen organic chemistry students, which increases students' motivation. This game can be played by up to four players, and each player competes with one another to see who can complete their organic chemistry synthesis scheme first through strategic and tactical planning, as well as answering organic chemistry-related questions. Players can also compete with one another through the leader board upon completing their synthesis scheme.