At the beginning of the year, as part of my work at UCL and together with members of the Extreme Citizen Science group, I launched a new postgraduate level course "Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing". We have opened it for distance learners on the UCL eXtend platform. As a postgraduate course, it required … Continue reading Five online training modules on citizen science
This week, in the "Introduction to Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing", our focus was on data management, to complete the first part of the course (the second part starts in a week's time since we have a mid-term "Reading Week" at UCL). The part that I've enjoyed most in developing was the segment that addresses … Continue reading Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 5 – Data quality
One of the aspects that fascinates me about citizen science and crowdsourcing is the nature of participation and in particular participation inequality. As I've noted last week, when you look at large scale systems, you expected to see it in them (so Google Local Guides is exhibiting 95:5:0.005 ratio). I knew that this phenomenon has been … Continue reading Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 3 – Participation inequality
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