Citizen science project characteristics: Connection to participants' gains in knowledge and skills.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biodiversity is being lost rapidly and its conservation is thus one of the most urgent tasks today. For biodiversity conservation to be successful, the public needs to gain an awareness and understanding of biodiversity and its importance. Moreover, species experts are needed who have the skills necessary for identifying and recording biodiversity. Previous research showed that citizen science projects can contribute to educating the public about biodiversity. However, it is still unclear how project characteristics connect to participants' knowledge and skills and how citizen science projects should be designed if they are to foster participants' learning.

Aim

We aimed to investigate specific characteristics of biodiversity citizen science projects that could pot

SUBMITTER: Peter M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8282002 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature