Approaching Participatory Design in"Citizen Science"

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland

Approaching Participatory Design in “Citizen Science”Ronald Macintyre@oepsscotland@roughbounds

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Session StructureIntroducing OEPS

Background and Context

Design but not Designed, Probes, Equations

Prototypes & Beyond Prototypes

Emerging Understanding of Value – changing in framing

Lessons Learnt


About usThe Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project facilitates best practice in Scottish open education. We aim to enhance Scotland’s reputation and capacity for developing publicly available and licenced online materials, supported by high quality pedagogy and learning technology.

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What do we mean by OEP?We think of Open Educational Practices as those educational practices that are concerned with and promote equity and openness. Our understanding of ‘open’ builds on the freedoms associated with “the 5 Rs” of OER, promoting a broader sense of open, emphasising social justice, and developing practices that open up opportunities for those distanced from education.

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Linked faces & inbetween spaces of OEP

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Design Probes

Pedagogic assumptions made visible within Open

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Partnership with “trusted sources” of support –

safe placesChallenging assumptions TCV – reach into

communities and networks

Marginalised and/or

Neglected Groups

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Designing by Equation

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The StudyAccess provided by TVC Small group of older residents (65yrs+) 12 x 2 hour visits over a year Rural small townCore group of 6 though varied between 6 and 8 participants.

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Mapping … Some mapping worksUsing maps to tease out questions about relationship to placeEveryday nature, embedding in but extending the notion of everyday

Some doesn’t We mapped methods onto context but people were unfamiliar with language. Later reflecting “their generation” not used to being asked

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Prototype and Beyond

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Evolving Prototypes… Digital images started to appear in books, then later people started to bring in tablets with “Citizen Science” apps on them

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What we learnt… From designing prototype to what prototype enabledReflections on mobility, public transport, worries about their bodiesIncreasing confidence, health and well being, exploring new places, rekindling old interests and generating new ones. Changes to the environment physical and seasons, and social and community

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What we learnt: Changing Values

Values1 = inclusive approaches to collecting biological dataValues2 = environmental awareness, health and well being, digital participation

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What we learnt… Participatory approaches mean not just WHAT and HOW but also being adaptable re VALUE

Focus on the process, it can take time, learn confidence to know when to stop talking

Recognise and record changing values in the design process “the thing” may simply be a mediating object for other transformations.

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Acknowledgements

The OEPS Team, Trust for Conservation Volunteers Scotland, Stevie Jarron, all the participantsLicense and CitationThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Please cite this work as: Macintyre R. (2016). Approaching Participatory Design in “Citizen Science”. In Proceedings of Design for Learning 5th International Conference: Learning Ecologies, 18-20th of May 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.designsforlearning2016.aau.dk/digitalAssets/196/196362_dfl_short-papers-samlet_final-pdf..pdf pp. 65-75,

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http://www.designsforlearning2016.aau.dk/digitalAssets/196/196362_dfl_short-papers-samlet_final-pdf..pdf

http://www.designsforlearning2016.aau.dk/digitalAssets/196/196362_dfl_short-papers-samlet_final-pdf..pdf