Interdisciplinary seminars and lab-based courses provide participants with the chance to gain insights from various fields. When textbooks lack accessibility or subjects rapidly evolve, students can research and create resources to support their peers' learning. In the Outbreak and Portable Genome Sequencing (PGS) courses at NC State, students collaboratively created Open Educational Resource (OER) case studies on significant public health outbreaks and a lab workbook focusing on Nanopore sequencing. Student groups were tasked with drafting sections for an outbreak investigation document (Outbreak) or preparing samples for sequencing (PGS), resulting in resources with graphical abstracts and protocols. Scholars contributed to outbreak.pubpub.org, and PGS participants are making a Pressbooks workbook. Future student cohorts will enhance existing resources and create new ones. These openly licensed resources ensure availability for the benefit of all.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Describe how to implement co-writing activities in their courses.
- Explain how the co-creation of resources can help students incorporate different perspectives and practice attribution and citation etiquette.
- List several advantages and disadvantages of collaborative classwork.
- Share ideas for how variations of this approach can be implemented in different courses.
