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Helping Citizen Scientists
Read and Write Like Scientists:
Learning Analytics & Authentic Enquiry
Duygu Simsek
http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/simsek/
PhD Research Student
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, UK
uk.linkedin.com/in/duygusimsek
@duygusimsekPhD
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Practical Science Outside the Laboratory
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/openscience/
Outline:
Overview of Citizen Science
What is it?
What are the example projects?
What is the role of citizens in these projects?
Aims of the PhD Project
Approaches & Methods
Brief overview of Authentic Enquiry
Relevant analytics technologies Cohere
XIP
OpenMentor
Suggestions and Ideas
Duygu Simsek
Citizen Science:
Citizen science:
Scientific research conducted by non-professionals (citizens) who
mainly volunteer or are sometimes deployed by professional
researchers to participate in the data collection and classification
processes of a project.
Successful Citizen Science Projects:
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http://www.ispot.org.uk/ http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
Citizens’ Involvement:
When scientific projects invite citizen engagement, it is mainly for
gathering and classifying data. It usually doesn’t go beyond that.
We want to support citizens to engage with different aspects of the
scientific ecosystem.
They can engage with the literature, reading & critically evaluating it as a
scientist, produce their own evidence-based arguments and claims and
communicate the results in a written format.
Nobody has tried developing citizen scientists in this way before.
And no one has used learning analytics to support the learning processes of
citizens. So another key element of this work will be using learning analytics
to provide feedback to citizens.
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Aims: Enabling citizens to become citizen scientists.
Developing citizens’ everyday language and scientific thinking, reading and writing abilities.
Approaches & Methods:
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Citizens’ Scientific Abilities
Critical thinking
Reading
Writing
Inquiry-based Process
Using Web 2.0:
Creating Arguments & Claims
Annotating Documents
Science Blogging
Reflective Writing
Approaches & Methods:
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Citizens’ Scientific Abilities
Critical thinking
Reading
Writing
Learning Analytics
Providing automated timely feedback for citizens.
Understanding how citizens learn through this process.
Inquiry-based Process
Using Web 2.0:
Creating Arguments & Claims
Annotating Documents
Science Blogging
Reflective Writing
Approaches & Methods:
Duygu Simsek
Citizens’ Scientific Abilities
Critical thinking
Reading
Writing
Authentic Enquiry:
“Approach to learning which begins with the learner’s interest and
experience, rooted in concrete place object or artefact and moves from
there through a process of facilitated knowledge construction, to a particular
negotiated outcome which meets publicly agreed assessment criteria.”
http://learningemergence.net/about/authentic-enquiry/
“Authentic” because it is authored by the learner and because it is real and
genuine in their life story.
We are considering using this approach because it
Stimulates curiosity
Increases engagement
Is based on personal interest
Enables knowledge construction
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Candidate Analytics Technologies:
Cohere
Discourse-centric Learning Analytics
A web application for
social bookmarking
annotating web resources collaboratively
making meaningful connections between ideas (idea-linking)
visualising argumentation
Cohere allows its users to make sense of complex issues.
Duygu Simsek
http://cohere.open.ac.uk/
Candidate Analytics Technologies:
Cohere
Discourse-centric Learning Analytics
A web application for
social bookmarking
annotating web resources collaboratively
making meaningful connections between ideas (idea-linking)
visualising argumentation.
Cohere allows its users to make sense of complex issues.
Duygu Simsek
http://cohere.open.ac.uk/
Candidate Analytics Technologies:
Cohere
Discourse-centric Learning Analytics
A web application for
social bookmarking
annotating web resources collaboratively
making meaningful connections between ideas (idea-linking)
visualising argumentation.
Cohere allows its users to make sense of complex issues.
Duygu Simsek
http://cohere.open.ac.uk/
Candidate Analytics Technologies:
Cohere
Discourse-centric Learning Analytics
A web application for
social bookmarking
annotating web resources collaboratively
making meaningful connections between ideas (idea-linking)
visualising argumentation.
Cohere allows its users to make sense of complex issues.
Duygu Simsek
http://cohere.open.ac.uk/
Candidate Analytics Technologies:
XIP (Xerox Incremental Parser)
Textual (Discourse) Analysis
Analytics for scholarly writing.
XIP carries out linguistic analysis (parsing) of text documents.
Discourse analysis within documents:
Sentence detection based on rhetorical markers
Duygu Simsek
http://open.xerox.com/Services/XIPParser
Candidate Analytics Technologies:
XIP (Xerox Incremental Parser)
Textual (Discourse) Analysis
Analytics for scholarly writing.
XIP carries out linguistic analysis (parsing) of text documents.
Discourse analysis within documents:
Sentence detection based on rhetorical markers
Duygu Simsek
http://open.xerox.com/Services/XIPParser
Candidate Analytics Technologies:
XIP (Xerox Incremental Parser)
Textual (Discourse) Analysis
Analytics for scholarly writing.
XIP carries out linguistic analysis (parsing) of text documents.
Discourse analysis within documents:
Sentence detection based on rhetorical markers
Duygu Simsek
http://open.xerox.com/Services/XIPParser HUMAN ANNOTATION
Candidate Analytics Technologies:
XIP (Xerox Incremental Parser)
Textual (Discourse) Analysis
Analytics for scholarly writing.
XIP carries out linguistic analysis (parsing) of text documents.
Discourse analysis within documents:
Sentence detection based on rhetorical markers
Duygu Simsek
http://open.xerox.com/Services/XIPParser HUMAN ANNOTATION MACHINE ANNOTATION
Candidate Analytics Technologies:
OpenMentor
Feedback system to deliver meaningful assessment to students
An open source mentoring tool for
tutors to:
Help them to reflect on the quality of
the feedback they give their students
on online submitted assignments.
Analyse tutor’s feedback based on
categories: positive/negative reactions,
questions and attempted answers.
Provide analysis reports to show and
enhance tutor’s feedback styles.
Duygu Simsek
http://openmentor.kcl.ac.uk/openmentor-web/
Suggestions & Ideas?
Duygu Simsek
Have you ever heard of or used similar
tools that you can recommend to me
that could enhance scientific reading
and writing abilities of trainee
scientists?
