Introduction to Citizen Science
This free course for citizen science practitioners and researchers provides you with a basic introduction to citizen science and requires no prior knowledge of the subject.
The course will help …
Citizen Science Typologies
This free course is aimed at anyone wishing to learn about the different approaches for classifying citizen science activities. It requires some basic knowledge and understanding of citizen science. The …
Designing for learning through citizen science
This is a free course that provides an introduction to designing and delivering for learning through participation in citizen science.
It is designed for both formal and informal educators, as …
Your Right to Privacy Online
The free course is designed to assist the general public with understanding of ‘personal data’ and our rights to privacy online.
Our data is collected across the Internet through digital …
Storytelling for citizen science
This course will give you the ground and tools to look in a different way at how you can communicate about your current project and how to craft a story …
Citizen Science Projects: How to Make a Difference (Part 4)
In the fourth and last part of this course we will share the best practices on (1) how to disseminate your results, (2) how to use citizen science as a …
Citizen Science Projects: How to Make a Difference (Part 3)
This is the third of a four-part course. This part of the course focuses on managing, understanding, analysing and visualizing data. You need no prior knowledge of citizen science to …
Citizen Science Projects: How to Make a Difference (Part 2)
This is the second of a four-part course. In this part we will (1) help you to decide what data you need to collect as part of your project, and …
Citizen Science Projects: How to Make a Difference (Part 1)
This is the first of a four-part course designed for anyone that wants to understand the environment and other global challenges and help create a change. You need no prior …
Citizen Science in the Classroom: A toolkit
This is a free course that benefits from access to the lessons learned from COMPASS, a citizen science project funded by the Spanish Government and aimed to evaluate the usability …
Lessons from citizen science for community engagement practice
A lively blogpost which may be very useful to the citizen science practitioner interested in creating a community of citizen scientists. It emphasises the importance of people building something together, …
Kutatóknak a ‘Citizen Science’ megközelítésben rejlő lehetőségekről
The main goal of the module is to show how and when citizen science-based projects can be useful, especially from a scientific point of view. After a brief introduction on …
Foundations of Citizen Science
The Foundations of Citizen Science module (available in English and Spanish) will help you learn the basics, participate in projects, and make the most of SciStarter. (Librarians: …
Libraries as Community Hubs for Citizen Science
SciStarter and the National Library of Medicine in the USA have produced a short training module on turning your library into a community hub for citizen science. The module covers …
Citizen Science and Storytelling
A presentation about the value of storytelling in Citizen Science. It takes us through several viewpoints and tools you can use to tell your story, considering the needs of the …
Estrategias y herramientas de comunicación aplicadas a proyectos de ciencia …
This is a free course for anyone wishing to learn about the different approaches for engaging citizens as stakeholders and learn basic techniques of communication for disseminating your citizen science …