Course: Empowerment through co-designed Citizen Science in education

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This free, 1.5-hour course provides insights into how citizen science may empower participants and favour democracy. It also shows practical ways of including citizen science in higher education programmes in order to instil citizen science as a common use in professional research and development activities.
This module is designed for an educational decision-maker audience, this is people who make decisions about curriculum in higher schools and universities as well as people in charge of education in regional and national governments.
On the basis of a pragmatic epistemology, this module emphasizes the benefits of collective value and knowledge creation, plurality inclusion in teaching activities and learning outcomes. Our novel approach seeks to provide tools favouring the disclosure of science and scientific disciplines.
After this module, the learner is expected to be able to:
identify different levels of integration of participants in Citizen Science,
reflect on the associated benefits to empower them,
engage students in science and train them for their future professional and personal lives.
General knowledge of citizen science is required to participate in this course.
Click here to enrol in this course and use enrolment key CSinEdu to do so. Once you enrol you will be able to take quizzes and receive a badge upon successful course completion.
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Select section Welcome and Introduction to the Course (4 min)

Welcome and Introduction to the Course (4 min)
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Select section 1. Theoretical rationale for the use of citizen science: crossing knowledge, values and sharing perspectives

1. Theoretical rationale for the use of citizen science: crossing knowledge, values and sharing perspectives
This section seeks to introduce a few theoretical elements about the pragmatist epistemology, that may support the use of citizen sciences.
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- Select activity 1.2. Various ways to integrate citizens into Citizen Science
  
  1.2. Various ways to integrate citizens into Citizen Science Book
  
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- Select activity 1.3. Pragmatism: an epistemology to take pluralism into account
  
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Select section Can Citizen Science be used in formal education? (15 min)

Can Citizen Science be used in formal education? (15 min)
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- Select activity Citizen Science in the progressive learning of the scientific process at university (5 min)
  
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- Select activity Citizen Science elements at different steps of the scientific process within the education program (7 min)
  
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Select section Examples of Citizen Science in university courses (10 min)

Examples of Citizen Science in university courses (10 min)
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- Select activity Using Citizen Science at different education levels (5 min)
  
  Using Citizen Science at different education levels (5 min) Interactive Content
  
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- Select activity 1st/2nd year gallery - biodiversity observations on the campus (1 min)
  
  1st/2nd year gallery - biodiversity observations on the campus (1 min) Interactive Content
  
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- Select activity 3rd year gallery - environmental monitoring (1 min)
  
  3rd year gallery - environmental monitoring (1 min) Interactive Content
  
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- Select activity 4th year gallery - campus Bioblitz (1 min)
  
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- Select activity 5th year gallery - stakeholder engagement methods (1 min)
  
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Select section Objectives and methodology of Citizen Science use in university courses (11 min)

Objectives and methodology of Citizen Science use in university courses (11 min)
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- Select activity Learning objectives and corresponding teaching methodology using Citizen Science (10 min)
  
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Select section Summary and Self-Assessment

Summary and Self-Assessment
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Select section Further Reading

Further Reading
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Sources and Acknowledgements

Course description

Announcements

Welcome and Introduction to the Course (4 min)

Welcome and introduction to the course

1. Theoretical rationale for the use of citizen science: crossing knowledge, values and sharing perspectives

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Various ways to integrate citizens into Citizen Science

1.3. Pragmatism: an epistemology to take pluralism into account

Card_ValuesPlurality

Card_ValuesDynamics

Can Citizen Science be used in formal education? (15 min)

Introduction (2 min)

Citizen Science in the progressive learning of the scientific process at university (5 min)

Citizen Science elements at different steps of the scientific process within the education program (7 min)

Examples of Citizen Science in university courses (10 min)

Introduction (1 min)

Using Citizen Science at different education levels (5 min)

1st/2nd year gallery - biodiversity observations on the campus (1 min)

3rd year gallery - environmental monitoring (1 min)

4th year gallery - campus Bioblitz (1 min)

5th year gallery - stakeholder engagement methods (1 min)

Objectives and methodology of Citizen Science use in university courses (11 min)

Introduction (1 min)

Learning objectives and corresponding teaching methodology using Citizen Science (10 min)

Summary and Self-Assessment

Self-Assessment (15 min)

Further Reading

Further Reading (10 min)

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