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Ansine, Janice
(2021).
Abstract
The scale and range of online citizen science projects and initiatives focused on biodiversity has evolved, particularly over the past ten years. Alongside interest and increasing public participation is growing recognition of its role contributing to learning. How can these types of user experiences be explored from the context of learning i.e. citizen science participant learning journeys? www.iSpotnature.org (iSpot) is a citizen observatory launched by The Open University, UK in 2009. The iSpot platform uses the challenge of identifying nature to engage people as citizen scientists; encouraging learning about wildlife while building species identification skills. This poster showcases an exploration of citizen science learning through user experiences in this online community. Significant here are the hundreds of thousands of iSpot participants observations and supporting comments and discussions. Learning is explored through a case study of iSpot user engagement. The concept of learner journeys is proposed and a desk review of secondary data sources was conducted using a five-step thematic method: explore, identify, contribute, personalise and recognition (Ansine et al, 2017); to analyse user experiences in the context of a range of learning approaches.
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
