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Contents
- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged open course?
- How to get a badge
- Introduction
- 1 What is citizen science?
- 2 Defining citizen science
- 3 Who is a citizen scientist?
- 4 Why citizen science?
- 5 Motivation: understanding why people do citizen science
- 6 Can citizens contribute to science?
- 7 How do we do it? Approaches to citizen science
- 8 Citizen science in action – the growth of citizen science
- 9 Creating a support structure for citizen science
- 10 This week’s quiz
- 11 Summary of Week 1
- Introduction
- 1 Identity
- 2 Diversity
- 3 Measuring biodiversity
- 4 Biodiversity patterns
- 5 Biodiversity drivers
- 6 Interaction of spatial and temporal scales
- 7 Contemporary global biodiversity challenges
- 8 This week’s quiz
- 9 Summary of Week 2
- Introduction
- 1 Why is species identification important?
- 2 Identifying species
- 3 Current estimates of the total number of species
- 4 Types of biological key
- 5 Comparing biological keys
- 6 Using a biological key
- 7 Limitations of biological keys
- 8 This week’s quiz
- 9 Summary of Week 3
- Introduction
- 1 A large-scale project
- 2 Plant surveying
- 3 Collecting insects
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 4
- Introduction
- 1 Small details are important
- 2 Using microscopes
- 3 Examining specimens with a microscope
- 4 Using DNA sampling
- 5 Automated species identification from images and sounds
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary of Week 5
- Introduction
- 1 Online resources supporting species identification
- 2 Further research post-identification of the stinging nettle
- 3 Finding out basic information
- 4 Researching further information about a species
- 5 Time for reflection
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary of Week 6
- Introduction
- 1 Overview of iSpot
- 2 Using iSpot
- 3 Browsing iSpot
- 4 Registering on iSpot
- 5 Adding an observation
- 6 Adding species names to identifications
- 7 Personalising and customising iSpot
- 8 This week’s quiz
- 9 Summary of Week 7
- Introduction
- 1 Ecosystems
- 2 Image analysis
- 3 Big data
- 4 Technology provides opportunities
- 5 Reflections
- 6 This week’s quiz
- Where next?
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Acknowledgements
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