Category: teaching

Visualisation Projects by CASA Urban Spatial Science Students

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Each year CASA master’s students demonstrate their spatial data visualisation skills with a group project. The theme this year was ‘Urban Futures’, and students have produced some very impressive and diverse work, experimenting with a range of visualisation tools and techniques. Click on the images below to visit the project websites. Urban Resilience ProjectsTwo groups … Continue reading Visualisation Projects by CASA Urban Spatial Science Students →

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CASA, mapping, sustainability, teaching, visualisation

Global Visualisation Websites from CASA MSc students

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Each year MSc students at CASA demonstrate their visualisation skills with a group project. The theme this year was ‘Global to Local’, and the class of 2022 has produced some particularly excellent work, experimenting with a range of visualisation tools and techniques. Sustainability VisualisationsSeveral groups interpreted the main theme in terms of sustainability and climate … Continue reading Global Visualisation Websites from CASA MSc students →

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CASA, global cities, mapping, sustainability, teaching, visualisation

Recording of the collabinar: teaching citizen science (UC Davis)

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Early in May, I had the pleasure of participating in the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) Center for Community and Citizen Science Collabinar. The event was an opportunity to reflect on the development of teaching citizen science at UCL – the creation of a graduate-level course, the development of training modules within the … Continue reading Recording of the collabinar: teaching citizen science (UC Davis) →

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citizen science, community science, Education, teaching, Webinar

The role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality

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From August to December I was hosted at the Centre for Research and interdisciplinarity in Paris. This short term research fellowship had a focus on learning and citizen science. The recording below is from a seminar in November 2019, titled “the role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality”. The talk … Continue reading The role of learning in citizen science and the impact of participation inequality

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citizen science, creativity and learning, CRI, Extreme Citizen Science, Research, teaching

What can we learn from analysing citizen science training materials?

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As part of the EU-Citizen.Science project, UCL is leading on the training work package. This means that we coordinate the part of the platform that will help to store and share training material for citizen science projects, and generally for the field (such as the UCL online course). The stay at the Centre for Research … Continue reading What can we learn from analysing citizen science training materials?

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citizen science, CRI, EU-citizen.science, H2020, Research projects, teaching, Training, VGI

Data Analytics Bootcamp

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I have always dreamed about doing some contribution towards improving the gender balance in technology, which as you may know, is far from ideal. Fortunately the opportunity arose, when Katrina Walker has invited me to teach the “Data Analytics”  bootcamp … Continue reading →

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Big Data, Bootcamp, data mining, Databases, DevOps, Docker, FOSS4G, Geospatial, GIS, GNU/Linux, Machine Learning, Programming, teaching

Citizen Science 2019: Citizen Science: Creating Authentic Learning Opportunities for Students

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The second day opened with an introduction to Kenan Fellows https://kenanfellows.org/ which is a programme to link teachers and provide STEM experience, and therefore they integrate citizen science in schools. Following this, Rachael Polmanteer, who is marine biologist turned 8th-grade science teacher, gave a keynote. Rachael is from Bath, New York (state) and she grows … Continue reading Citizen Science 2019: Citizen Science: Creating Authentic Learning Opportunities for Students

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Five online training modules on citizen science

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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

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citizen science, online course, OPENER, teaching, VGI

Social Innovation and Citizen Science in Shanghai & Shenzhen

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During the 22 to 29 October, I visited Shanghai & Shenzhen together with Michael Norton (CIVA), who organised the visit, and Liz Barry (Public Lab). This was a packed tour, with two all-day workshops that are dedicated to citizen science (one in Fudan University, Shanghai, and the other as part of the Asian Environmental Innovation … Continue reading Social Innovation and Citizen Science in Shanghai & Shenzhen

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China, citizen science, Conference, Environmental information, great firewall, public lab, Social Enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, teaching, VGI

Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 5 – Data quality

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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

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citizen science, data quality, Geographical Information Quality, online course, OpenStreetMap, PPGIS, quality assurance, Spatial Data Quality, teaching, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 3 – Participation inequality

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One of the aspects that fascinates me about the nature of participation in 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 … Continue reading Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 3 – Participation inequality

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citizen science, course, MOOC, online course, participation, Participation Inequality, teaching, Usability, VGI

Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 2 – Google Local Guides

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The first week of the “Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing” course was dedicated to an introduction to the field of citizen science using the history, examples and typologies to demonstrate the breadth of the field. The second week was dedicated to the second half of the course name – crowdsourcing in general, and its … Continue reading Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 2 – Google Local Guides

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citizen science, crowdsourced geographic information, Crowdsourcing, GIS, GIS Usability, Google, Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, teaching, Usability, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information, Web 2.0

Launching a citizen science course – week 1

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Today, I gave the opening lectures of the new UCL course ‘Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing‘. In a way, it was more work than I originally thought, but I also thought that I’m underestimating the effort – so it’s not completely unexpected. Although I am responsible for the first installation of Moodle, the … Continue reading Launching a citizen science course – week 1

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citizen cyberscience, citizen science, history of science, teaching, UCL, VGI

Online course – Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing

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It’s a new year, and just the right time to announce that starting on the 11th January, UCL will run an 11 weeks hybrid (online and face to face) course called “Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing“. This course aim is to introduce students to the theory and practice of citizen science and scientific crowdsourcing. … Continue reading Online course – Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing

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citizen science, GIS, teaching

The Full Stack: Tools & Processes for Urban Data Scientists

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Recently, I was asked to give talks at both UCL’s CASA and the ETH Future Cities Lab in Singapore for students and staff new to ‘urban data science’ and the sorts of workflows involved in collecting, processing, analysing, and reporting on … Continue reading →

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Analytics, Big Data, Coding, data, mapping, postgres, python, R, Research, teaching, technology, Tutorials, urban data science

Bridging the Qual/Quant Divide

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I’ve been in my new post in the Geography department at King’s College London for nearly nine months now and — together with another new-ish colleague – have been asked to design a programme to teach quantitative research methods to students who often seem … Continue reading →

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computing, data, Front Page, ICT, qm, qualitative, Quantitative, quantitative methods, raspberry pi, teaching

Bridging the Qual/Quant Divide

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I’ve been in my new post in the Geography department at King’s College London for nearly nine months now and — together with another new-ish colleague – have been asked to design a programme to teach quantitative research methods to students who often seem … Continue reading →

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computing, data, Front Page, ICT, qm, qualitative, Quantitative, quantitative methods, raspberry pi, teaching