CuboCube: Student creation of a cancer genetics e-textbook using open-access software for social learning

Student creation of educational materials has the capacity both to enhance learning and to decrease costs. Three successive honors-style classes of undergraduate students in a cancer genetics class worked with a new software system, CuboCube, to create an e-textbook. CuboCube is an open-source learn...

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Published in:PLoS biology 2017-03, Vol.15 (3), p.e2001192-e2001192
Main Authors: Seid-Karbasi, Puya, Ye, Xin C, Zhang, Allen W, Gladish, Nicole, Cheng, Suzanne Y S, Rothe, Katharina, Pilsworth, Jessica A, Kang, Min A, Doolittle, Natalie, Jiang, Xiaoyan, Stirling, Peter C, Wasserman, Wyeth W
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Language:English
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Academic libraries
Access to Information
Age
Anatomy
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics
Biology and Life Sciences
Bubbles
CAI
Cancer
Children
Collaboration
Collection
Colleges & universities
Computer assisted instruction
Computer programs
Data acquisition
Data collection
Data processing
Decision analysis
Design
Design analysis
Distance learning
Education
Educational aspects
Engineering
Feedback
Flora
Forensic sciences
Genetic aspects
Genetics
Genomes
Health
Health services
Hospitals
Laboratories
Learning
Library collections
Literature reviews
Medical education
Medical research
Medicine
Neoplasms - genetics
News
Open access
People and Places
Public software
R&D
Redundancy
Research & development
Reviews
Social discrimination learning
Social Learning
Social Sciences
Software
Students
Technology application
Textbooks
Textbooks as Topic
Winter
World Wide Web
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Summary:Student creation of educational materials has the capacity both to enhance learning and to decrease costs. Three successive honors-style classes of undergraduate students in a cancer genetics class worked with a new software system, CuboCube, to create an e-textbook. CuboCube is an open-source learning materials creation system designed to facilitate e-textbook development, with an ultimate goal of improving the social learning experience for students. Equipped with crowdsourcing capabilities, CuboCube provides intuitive tools for nontechnical and technical authors alike to create content together in a structured manner. The process of e-textbook development revealed both strengths and challenges of the approach, which can inform future efforts. Both the CuboCube platform and the Cancer Genetics E-textbook are freely available to the community.
ISSN:1545-7885
1544-9173
1545-7885
DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.2001192