Water Wheel Sept/Oct 2024: Citizen Science

Abstract

To pilot the remote learning system, the project applied an Action-Orientated Research Approach, which included three phases. Each phase was focused on the following objectives, respectively: understanding how citizen science learning was currently taking place and the tools currently being used; designing the remote learning platform for citizen science learning whilst retaining the learning principles that emerged from phase one and identifying applications to support remote learning; and piloting the remote learning platform in a marginalised community while concurrently assessing how the learning is taking place to inform the refinement and improvement of the remote learning platform. To assess the learning experience of the participants, a summative assessment was conducted. The following emerging principles were identified and informed the design of the remote learning platform: 1. Relationships between the facilitators and participants and between the participants themselves need to be organically developed and maintained. 2.

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