The document discusses motivations for integrating citizen science into higher education curricula. It describes how citizen science projects can provide hands-on learning opportunities for students to develop scientific and soft skills. Specifically, it presents the development of a campus biodiversity recording app as a case study where students are engaged in fieldwork using mobile devices to identify and map local species. Another example discussed is Project Splatter, a citizen science project that collects data on roadkill observations to analyze spatial and temporal patterns and map invasive species ranges.
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Creating Digital Content for Learning Purposes in Sciences using Project Base...Chole Richard
This is an infant project that attempts to provide answers to fundamental problems facing the study of sciences in Uganda and the rest of Africa. Its main trust is project based learning concept that aims at empowering the participating young people with knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them become problem solvers of identified needs in the study of sciences rather than passive learners. The project aims beyond learner excellence of attaining set standards through mere memorizing or rote learning to pass exams.
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Once a problem area in sciences has been identified, the learners generally use the multimedia production stages to execute their task backed by research work, consulting and soliciting for expert input of resource persons. This from time to time is punctuated by self-evaluations or reflections. Once the product is completed, it is made available on DVD’s and uploaded on Multimedia website (YouTube) to be utilized for free. The learners are also given opportunity to share their work at exhibitions whenever the opportunity avails itself or they create it themselves.
While the main thrust is digital creation of learning contents for sciences, the project is actually broad and diverse in the skills it develops. The project is conscious of individual difference among the learners so that each of them discovers his/her potentials and interest that can be utilized in the project and may determine the learners’ career goals. The project subjects the learners to very crucial skills and appreciation of team work, collaboration, negotiating in a group, communication skills, research mentality, learning to take advantage of available technology, working with minimum supervision, self-evaluation, social responsibility and global citizenship. The ultimate test is not so much in the end products of the project but the change brought about in the learner by the whole process. The learner’s level of involvement in the project is therefore very vital.
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Delivery Format: Interactive Presentation
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This is a presentation from the citizen science impact event at the Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/opentel/citizen-science-impact-event-at-the-open-university/
Citizen science offer different levels of engagement to participants, which have been captured in typologies of the field (contributory, collaborative, co-created, collegial / crowdsourcing, distributed intelligence, participatory science, extreme citizen science). These typologies do no explicitly examine learning. At the same time, projects and activities striving to fulfil multiple goals (excellent scientific output, satisfying engagement, good recruitment, learning …). Within ythe range of citizen science project, we can consider different aspects of learning that are occurring in them, Projects and use examples from a range of project, and raise some aspects that can help those who are designing co-created projects.
As part of the ALIA professional development series - "What's your job title mean?" - this presentation describes what's involved working with Informatics in Digital Humanities & Education at the University of Melbourne.
Visualising activity in learning networks using open data and educational ...Michael Paskevicius
Delivered October13, 2011 in Cape Town South Africa at the 2011 Southern African Association for Institutional Research forum
Abstract
As more student academic activities involve both institutional and social networks, educational analysts are needing to investigate ways in which this data can be collected and interpreted to enhance learning experiences. Data recorded as students explore personal learning environments is most often not accessible or incomplete. Here we explore some of the approaches that exist to use these social networking platforms along with information from the learning management system and academic records. Combining and analysing this data has allowed us to create a number of interesting visualizations exposing patterns which would have been impossible to glean from looking at the data alone. In an age of data abundance we reflect on using some of these new measures in relation to improving learning design, increasing academic responsiveness and enhanced student experiences.
The role of learning in community science and citizen scienceMuki Haklay
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What skills, abilities, and habits of mind do today’s graduates need for their careers and to solve complex problems in a constantly changing, globally-connected world? How can we integrate digital skills in support of critical thinking and inquiry across the curriculum? The future of higher education depends upon an integrative vision of digitally-informed learning that is not merely content delivery online but rather is education reshaped in the same ways that digital technologies have already fundamentally changed our culture. This talk will present a vision for building a curriculum that develops self-directed, digitally-augmented problem-solving from introductory to capstone level courses and prepares graduates to partner with technology to solve problems.
Creating Digital Content for Learning Purposes in Sciences using Project Base...Chole Richard
This is an infant project that attempts to provide answers to fundamental problems facing the study of sciences in Uganda and the rest of Africa. Its main trust is project based learning concept that aims at empowering the participating young people with knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them become problem solvers of identified needs in the study of sciences rather than passive learners. The project aims beyond learner excellence of attaining set standards through mere memorizing or rote learning to pass exams.
Unlike the traditional mode of teaching and learning in most schools in Africa, here the learners remain the driving force and creators of content for learning purposes. Young people are very curious, very imaginative and fearless at trying new grounds - three very important ingredients for innovation in sciences but largely over looked or - worst still - killed off by schools of today. This project seeks to appeal to these important elements to capture the young learners’ interests in coming up with creative ideas for the project. In the whole process the educator is more of a guide, facilitator or mentor - creating the necessary environment and support that the learners may need to experience learning.
Once a problem area in sciences has been identified, the learners generally use the multimedia production stages to execute their task backed by research work, consulting and soliciting for expert input of resource persons. This from time to time is punctuated by self-evaluations or reflections. Once the product is completed, it is made available on DVD’s and uploaded on Multimedia website (YouTube) to be utilized for free. The learners are also given opportunity to share their work at exhibitions whenever the opportunity avails itself or they create it themselves.
While the main thrust is digital creation of learning contents for sciences, the project is actually broad and diverse in the skills it develops. The project is conscious of individual difference among the learners so that each of them discovers his/her potentials and interest that can be utilized in the project and may determine the learners’ career goals. The project subjects the learners to very crucial skills and appreciation of team work, collaboration, negotiating in a group, communication skills, research mentality, learning to take advantage of available technology, working with minimum supervision, self-evaluation, social responsibility and global citizenship. The ultimate test is not so much in the end products of the project but the change brought about in the learner by the whole process. The learner’s level of involvement in the project is therefore very vital.
Innovate from Where You Are: Supporting, Celebrating, and Connecting InnovatorsMax Tsai
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Delivery Format: Interactive Presentation
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Outcomes: Understand how one university successfully promoted an improved culture of innovation * Learn specific tactics that can be applied at your institution to promote innovation * Reflect on how these tactics can be applied to develop an innovation program at your institution
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Inputs
Project design
Project implementation
Outputs
Outcomes
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