🔴 Course description:
This is a free course of two hours about the benefits of social media for citizen science projects.
It is designed to guide citizen science practitioners on how to take the most advantage of social media platforms for their citizen science projects.
Prior experience with social media as a regular user is necessary for attending this course.
Many citizen science projects are present in social media, but they are not taking advantage of the full potential of these online resources. After attending this course, participants should be able to:
- Enumerate the ways that citizen science can benefit from social media.
- Choose the social platforms that best suit their project.
- Implement the best strategies to enhance their social media performance and to boost the benefits generated for the citizen science project.
💡Access information
This course allows 1) guest access (no registration required) and 2) self-enrollment as a user.
Type of access
Using guest access allows you to see course content freely but does not enable you to save your learning progress or earn a badge. Self-enrollment as a user allows you to see the course content, save your learning progress and earn a badge.
How to access
Guest access: enter the key ‘CitSciSocial’ into option “Guest access” below.
Self-enrollment: To self- enroll first create your account on the citizenscience.eu platform - then on the ECS Academy (it is a two step process). Once you have created your account on the ECS Academy you will be able to enroll without a key.
- Teacher: Sofia S. Oliveira Sofia S. Oliveira