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''OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.''
''OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.''


OpenWetWare seeks to capture information not usually recorded in biological research and offers a complement to traditional publishing mediums.
''OpenWetWare seeks to capture information not usually recorded in biological research and offers a complement to traditional publishing mediums.''
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''"The collaborative environment [of OpenWetWare] is a powerful pedagogical tool, requiring my students become responsible contributors to the subject. The wiki has also been unspeakably useful in developing curricula with my fellow teaching faculty and teaching assitants. Finally, with all the course material public, researchers and teachers around the world have stumbled into the site and have subsequently contacted me to discuss implemented parts of the curriculum in other settings. Other electronic teaching plaforms exist, but none is so collaborative and open. Finally I'll add that having gotten into the habit of working on OWW, I find my new teaching and research projects automatically start as OWW working pages."''
''"The collaborative environment [of OpenWetWare] is a powerful pedagogical tool, requiring my students become responsible contributors to the subject. The wiki has also been unspeakably useful in developing curricula with my fellow teaching faculty and teaching assitants. Finally, with all the course material public, researchers and teachers around the world have stumbled into the site and have subsequently contacted me to discuss implemented parts of the curriculum in other settings. Other electronic teaching plaforms exist, but none is so collaborative and open. Finally I'll add that having gotten into the habit of working on OWW, I find my new teaching and research projects automatically start as OWW working pages."''


--'''[[User:Nkuldell|Natalie Kuldell]], Department of Biological Engineering, MIT'''
--''[[User:Nkuldell|Natalie Kuldell]], Department of Biological Engineering, MIT''


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OpenWetWare

OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.

OpenWetWare seeks to capture information not usually recorded in biological research and offers a complement to traditional publishing mediums.

Motivation

As engineers struggling to learn biology, we struggle with the fact that much of biological research can't be learned from books and papers.

OpenWetWare's contributions

  1. Democratizing and disseminating content generation
  2. Digitization of biological knowledge, as it is generated
  3. Making biological research easier

Courses on OpenWetWare

20.109, Sample student data

"The collaborative environment [of OpenWetWare] is a powerful pedagogical tool, requiring my students become responsible contributors to the subject. The wiki has also been unspeakably useful in developing curricula with my fellow teaching faculty and teaching assitants. Finally, with all the course material public, researchers and teachers around the world have stumbled into the site and have subsequently contacted me to discuss implemented parts of the curriculum in other settings. Other electronic teaching plaforms exist, but none is so collaborative and open. Finally I'll add that having gotten into the habit of working on OWW, I find my new teaching and research projects automatically start as OWW working pages."

--Natalie Kuldell, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT