Collaborative flashcard making (at Hopkins)

[chronicidal]

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Students at Hopkins evidently have a shared Google documents system to collaboratively make flashcards. You can read about it here.

The key idea is that, instead of having a few students send out decks of notes and flashcards to the class by email every so often, students make cards that align with the curriculum in a convenient manner that allows real-time collaboration, peer review and quality control, and unobtrusive dissemination. They have a script that generates simple flashcards that keep score based on input Google spreadsheets or presentations.

Thoughts?

 

[ijn]

The act of making the flashcard is half of the learning experience. To each their own. But I wouldn't learn well from someone else's cards. This is coming from someone who probably made 20,000 old fashion flashcards over the course of the first two years of medical school.

 

[KinasePro]

The act of making the flashcard is half of the learning experience. To each their own. But I wouldn't learn well from someone else's cards. This is coming from someone who probably made 20,000 old fashion flashcards over the course of the first two years of medical school.

Agreed, which is why I couldn't stand GT.

I like the idea of pre-clinical crowd sourcing, but I imagine it would work better in a wiki format, something along the lines of syncytiabeta. If that site was better moderated, it would be a phenomenal resource.