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Young people’s requirements for engaging with inquiry-led, civic engagement technologies
A partnership with young people took in Leysin American School (LAS), in Switzerland, during the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) workshop on enhancing synergies between citizen science and education helped us in evaluating a first version of the … Continue reading
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How to design citizen science tools for learning
Our long-lasting experience of designing citizen science tools for inquiry learning has now been captured and published free access here. We report on eight design principles that guided the design of the nQuire platform, a citizen inquiry platform empowering people to initiate and complete their … Continue reading
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Tagged design experiments, design principles, Design-based research, nQuire
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New book: ‘Citizen inquiry: Synthesizing science and inquiry learning’!
Citizen science or crowdsourcing has gained an increasing popularity the last few years with web-based platform such as Zooniverse and iSpot scaffolding interactions between scientists and members of the public. Yet, little emphasis has been given to the educational benefits … Continue reading
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