faculty

Lecturer IV and Coordinator, General Chemistry Laboratory Program
M.A., Columbia University

Team and inquiry-based collaborative learning

Phone: (734) 763-5372     
E-mail: nkerner@umich.edu

Nancy Konigsberg Kerner has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor since 1983, where she teaches and coordinates the introductory general chemistry lab program.   She has taught or designed chemistry programs at all academic levels from elementary school to college. Recent programs are targeted to introduce middle school girls and deaf and hard of hearing high school students to what chemists do and activities chemists engage in.   Her research interests focus on guided inquiry instructional strategies, team-based learning, and the use of technology in teaching chemistry. She has been PI on a number of grants. She is the author of several lab manuals including the recent Guided Inquiry Experiments for General Chemistry: Practical Problems and Application.  

She is chemistry co-editor of MERLOT in conjunction with JCE where one of her roles has been the establishment of evaluation criteria for online learning objects.    She is currently PI on a grant to "Enhance Undergraduate Education through the Deployment of Good Learning Objects".    Nancy is a Smithsonian Fellow and has received several awards for innovative achievement in education.

Curriculum Vitae (.doc)

AWARDS

• 2008, Institutional Stewardship Award (UMMERLOT Community of Practice)
• 2008, Nini (New Initiatives/New Infrastrastructure) Award, ITL, University of Michigan
• 2003, Instructional Technology Award, University of Michigan
• 2003, Gilbert Whitaker Award for the Improvement of Teaching, University of Michigan
• 1999, Excellence in Education Award, LS&A, University of Michigan
• 1999, Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate Award, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
• 1999, Innovative Achievement in Education Award, University of Michigan.
• 1993, Who's Who in American Education

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. Nancy Konigsberg Kerner and Ram Lamba, Guided Inquiry Experiments for General Chemistry; Practical Problems and Applications , John Wiley & Sons, December, 2007.

2. Nancy Konigsberg Kerner and James Penner-Hahn, Collaborative Investigations in Chemistry,   Hayden Mc-Neil Publishing Co, (1996 -), 2008.

3. Nancy Konigsberg Kerner, "Designing Guided Inquiry Laboratory Activities for General Chemistry", 1164735, 235 th American Chemical Society, New Orlean, LA, March, 2008.

4. Nancy Konigsberg Kerner and Bill Paquette, "Evaluation and and Review of On-line Learning Materials", Peer Reviewer Training Workshop, MIC, New Orleans, August, 2007

5. Nancy Konigsberg Kerner, "Using Clip Art and the Arts to Enhance Understanding of Chemistry", S347, 18 th BCCE, University of Iowa, July 2004.