Citizen Science Projects: How to make a difference (MOOC)

TY - GEN

T1 - Citizen Science Projects

T2 - How to make a difference (MOOC)

A2 - Woods, Mel

A2 - Coulson, Saskia

A2 - Ajates, Raquel

A2 - Amditis, Angelos

A2 - Cobley, Andy

A2 - Domian, Dahlia

A2 - Hager, Gerid

A2 - Ferri, Michele

A2 - Fraisl, Dilek

A2 - Fritz, Steffen

A2 - Gold, Margaret

A2 - Karitsioti, Nikoletta

A2 - Masó, Joan

A2 - McCallum, Ian

A2 - Tomei, Giovanni

A2 - Monego, Martina

A2 - Moorthy, Inian

A2 - Prat, Ester

A2 - Tsertou, Athanasia

A2 - Tsiakos, Valantis

A2 - See, Linda

A2 - Underwood, Laura

A2 - Wehn, Uta

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Citizen Science Projects: How to make a difference, is a massive open online course (MOOC). It was developed by the H2020 WeObserve project and ran on the FutureLearn platform from 2019. The course was designed to assist learners from all backgrounds and geographical locations to discover how to build their own citizen science project to address global challenges and create positive change. It also helped learners with interpreting the information they collected and using their findings to educate others about important local and global concerns. The main learning objectives for the course were: ∗ Discover what citizen science and citizen observatories are ∗ Engage with the general process of a citizen science project, the tools used and where they can be accessed ∗ Collect and analyse data on relevant issues such as environmental challenges and disaster management, and discuss the results of their findings ∗ Explore projects happening around the world, what the aims of these projects are and how learners could get involved ∗ Model the steps to create their own citizen science project ∗ Evaluate the potential of citizen science in bringing about change This course also provided five open-source, downloadable tools which have been tested in previous citizen science projects and created for the use of a wider range of projects. These tools are listed below and available in the research repository: ∗Empathy timeline tool ∗Community-level indicators tool ∗Data postcards tool ∗Future newspaper tool ∗Co-evaluation tool

AB - Citizen Science Projects: How to make a difference, is a massive open online course (MOOC). It was developed by the H2020 WeObserve project and ran on the FutureLearn platform from 2019. The course was designed to assist learners from all backgrounds and geographical locations to discover how to build their own citizen science project to address global challenges and create positive change. It also helped learners with interpreting the information they collected and using their findings to educate others about important local and global concerns. The main learning objectives for the course were: ∗ Discover what citizen science and citizen observatories are ∗ Engage with the general process of a citizen science project, the tools used and where they can be accessed ∗ Collect and analyse data on relevant issues such as environmental challenges and disaster management, and discuss the results of their findings ∗ Explore projects happening around the world, what the aims of these projects are and how learners could get involved ∗ Model the steps to create their own citizen science project ∗ Evaluate the potential of citizen science in bringing about change This course also provided five open-source, downloadable tools which have been tested in previous citizen science projects and created for the use of a wider range of projects. These tools are listed below and available in the research repository: ∗Empathy timeline tool ∗Community-level indicators tool ∗Data postcards tool ∗Future newspaper tool ∗Co-evaluation tool

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U2 - 10.20933/100001193

DO - 10.20933/100001193

M3 - Other contribution

PB - WeObserve

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