An overview of the course
Welcome to 'An Introduction to Citizen Science. This course has been designed for the citizen science practitioner and research community by members of the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS)
research group at University College London (UCL). The course is designed to take approximately 1.5 hours. We start the course with an introduction to the field of citizen science.
In section one, you will be introduced to some historical examples of citizen science, how the role of the citizen scientist has changed through time, and the major factors that have resulted in the growth of citizen science to the practice we understand it to be today.
In section two, you will learn about the large-scale societal and technological changes that provided the background to the growth of citizen science over the past decade.
In section three, you will learn about the different types of citizen activities and the fields of science in which citizen science is commonly used.
In section four, you will
learn about some of the major typologies that are being used to understand the spectrum of activities that are included in citizen science.
In this very short video, you will find a welcome message from the course lecturer, Muki Haklay