REAL CHEM Action Research Through the LearnLab Summer School

REAL CHEM is a comprehensive courseware environment for general chemistry. Because the REAL CHEM courseware aligns with widely adopted textbooks and instructional practices, it has been implemented across a broad range of institutions. Given both the Learning Engineering and practitioner focus of this manuscript, we frame our method as a description of how REAL CHEM instructors were supported to conduct action research with curated data from their courses incorporating REAL CHEM. The corresponding results are the ongoing action research projects that have emerged. We highlight one of these projects and discuss implications for data-driven reforms of teaching practices as a valuable Learning Engineering cycle.