Teaching an experiential field course via online participatory science projects: A COVID-19 case study of a UC California Naturalist course.

Autor: Gerhart LM; University of California Davis CA USA., Jadallah CC; University of California Davis CA USA., Angulo SS; UC California Naturalist Program UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Davis CA USA., Ira GC; UC California Naturalist Program UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Davis CA USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Ecology and evolution [Ecol Evol] 2021 Jan 27; Vol. 11 (8), pp. 3537-3550. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jan 27 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7187
Abstrakt: Experience and training in field work are critical components of undergraduate education in ecology, and many university courses incorporate field-based or experiential components into the curriculum in order to provide students hands-on experience. Due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the sudden shift to remote instruction in the spring of 2020, many instructors of such courses found themselves struggling to identify strategies for developing rigorous field activities that could be completed online, solo, and from a student's backyard. This case study illustrates the process by which one field-based course, a UC California Naturalist certification course offered at the University of California, Davis, transitioned to fully remote instruction. The transition relied on established, publicly available, online participatory science platforms (e.g., iNaturalist) to which the students contributed data and field observations remotely. Student feedback on the course and voluntary-continued engagement with the participatory science platforms indicates that the student perspective of the experience was on par with previous traditional offerings of the course. This case study also includes topics and participatory science resources for consideration by faculty facing a similar transition from group field activities to remote, individual field-based experiences.
Competing Interests: None declared.
(© 2021 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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