Abstract Links I. What is a Paradigm? II. The Wilderness Years: 1981-1990 III. The Realization Years: 1990-1993 IV. The Experimentation Years: 1993-1995 V. The Implementation Years: 1995-1997 VI. What has worked VII. Continuing obstacles VIII. Vision of the Future IX. A Vision to Give All Forms of Spectroscopy "the Same Look" by the Use of IT Adv Org Chem Lab -- Ease of Use --Educational Value X. An IT Vision: Merging of instuction and research through IT and discovery based learning. ESR Module Acknowledgements

Information Technologies (IT) for the Enhancement of Undergraduate Science Education: IT or not IT, that is the Question. Is It Time for a Paradigm Shift?   Since the beginning of the decade, the Chemistry Department of Columbia University has been experimenting with the use of a range of information technologies as tools and catalysts for enhancing undergraduate science education. An important component of the experiments is the use of undergraduates as full participants and creators, with faculty as mentors, of research and course materials employing IT. Examples will be given of courses on the web, of multimedia modules demonstrating chemical principles and of research tools that were developed by undergraduates. A science faculty "information technology cluster" has been created with the intention of extending the Chemistry Department experience to the other science Departments and of integrating materials that are common to the various science Departments.