Citizen Inquiry

Christothea Herodotou is Lecturer in Innovating Pedagogy at the Open University, UK. She is interested in the evaluation of technology for learning and engagement through the use of innovative research methods, including crowdsourcing and learning analytics. She holds funding from the National Science Foundation (USA) and Wellcome Trust (UK) for evaluating online learning in museum-led citizen science projects. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Mike Sharples is Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK and Academic Lead at Futurelearn.com. He was Founding President of the International Association for Mobile Learning and is Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. He has over 300 published papers on educational technology, mobile learning and inquiry science learning. His projects as principal investigator include nQuire: Young Citizen Inquiry, and Personal Inquiry to support inquiry-based learning of science topics between formal and non-formal settings. He co-edited Orchestrating Enquiry Learning (Routledge, 2012) with Karen Littleton and Eileen Scanlon.Eileen Scanlon is Regius Professor of Open Education and Associate Director of Research and Innovation in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK. Eileen completed her PhD in 1990 studying cognitive models of physics problem solving and has published extensively in the fields of technology-enhanced learning and science communication. She co-edited Orchestrating Inquiry Learning (Routledge, 2012) with Karen Littleton and Mike Sharples.

• 1. Introduction - Citizen inquiry: A new approach to inquiry science learning 2. Online citizen science: Participation, motivation, and opportunities for informal learning 3. From the wisdom of crowds to going viral: The creation and transmission of knowledge in the citizen humanities 4. Community engagement around poor air quality in London: Citizen inquiry in a citizen science « Mapping for Change » project 5. Exploring embedded assessment to document scientific inquiry skills within citizen science 6. Exploring citizen science and inquiry learning through iSpotnature.org 7. Geocaching: Inquiry learning with a sense of adventure 8. Towards citizen inquiry: From class-based environmental projects to citizen science 9. High motivation and relevant scientific competencies through the introduction of citizen science at secondary schools: An assessment using a rubric model 10. Cultural citizen inquiry: Making space for the ‘everyday’ in language teaching and learning 11. Educational backgrounds, project design and inquiry learning in citizen science 12. Design processes of a citizen inquiry community