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| Paper: |
Educational Exploration of the Zooniverse: Tools for Formal and Informal Audience Engagement |
| Volume: |
473, Communicating Science |
| Page: |
101 |
| Authors: |
Borden, K. A.; Kapadia, A.; Smith, A.; Whyte, L. |
| Abstract: |
The Zooniverse is a collection of online citizen science projects with over 600,000 volunteers worldwide. With more than thirty peer-reviewed academic publications across ten projects, the Zooniverse is firmly established as a tool for researchers. Zooniverse volunteers participate in a variety of scientific tasks ranging from galaxy classification (Galaxy Zoo) to the transcription of ancient Greek papyri (Ancient Lives), demonstrating that citizen science is applicable to a diverse range of research fields. While they were not primarily conceived as such, the accessible nature of the Zooniverse projects makes them a valuable tool for scientific outreach. After all, what better way to communicate science than to ask people to contribute to research? In this session Zooniverse developers and educators demonstrated educational resources complementing Zooniverse projects for informal learning audiences, formal learning audiences and Zooniverse volunteers. |
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