OpenScience and Citizen Inquiry
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This document discusses open and distance education at the Open University in the UK. It presents several initiatives to make science more open and accessible to everyone, including OpenScience Lab which allows online science experiments and investigations. Citizen inquiry combines citizen science, inquiry learning, and creativity, as seen in the program iSpot where users make wildlife observations. The document outlines how smartphones can serve as scientific tools and the nQuire app for citizen investigations and datalogging. It envisions people conducting collaborative inquiries using tools like accelerometers to investigate driving skills or noise levels.
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- 1. OpenScience A new Perspective on Distance Education and Inquiry Learning Mike Sharples Institute of Educational Technology The Open University
- 2. The Open University • Largest university in the UK • 250,000 students • 1,100 academic staff • 7,000 Associate Lecturers (tutors) • Modern distance learning Milton Keynes
- 3. Open Education • “The Open University's mission is to be open to people, places, methods and ideas” • 44% of undergraduates start without university entrance qualifications • 12,000 students with disabilities • 20,000 students outside the UK
- 7. How can we open practical science to everyone?
- 10. Do practical science anywhere
- 11. Real equipment: PIRATE remote telescope
- 12. Real data: Virtual Microscope
- 13. Real science investigations: nQuire
- 25. www.nquire.info
- 26. Personal investigations: Healthy Eating
- 27. Healthy Eating: Daily food diary
- 28. Healthy Eating: Compare to recommended daily intake
- 29. Citizen inquiry citizen science + inquiry learning + creativity = citizen inquiry
- 30. Citizen Inquiry: iSpot www.ispotnature.org • Open citizen science • Wildlife observation • Finding and naming birds, trees, flowers, insects • Sharing knowledge • 40,000 registered users • 250,000 observations
- 31. Insect species new to Britain reported to iSpot by a 6-year-old girl Young people acting like scientists
- 32. Smartphone as a scientific tool • Camera • Audio recorder • Light meter • Sound meter • Compass • • • • • • • • Location sensor (GPS) Temperature Magnetic field Accelerometer Barometer Humidity Sensor Wind speed Heart rate
- 34. Smartphone investigations • Am I a better driver than my parents, or my partner? – Accelerometer and compass to measure how „smooth‟ is my driving (10 samples/second) • Is noise stressful? – Log ambient noise for a day, and record when I feel stressed (1 sample/minute) • Is this room suitable for my baby at night? – Temperature and humidity (12 samples/hour) And share data with many other people
- 36. Thanks to Eloy Villasclaras-Fernandez Christothea Herodotou www.nquire.info www.opensciencelab.ac.uk www.ispotnature.org