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Mankowski, Trent A.; Slater, Stephanie J.; Slater, Timothy F. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2011
A particularly successful effort to engage the public in science has been to move the nearly countless galaxies imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to citizen scientists in a project known widely as Galaxy Zoo (URL; http://www.galaxyzoo.org). By examining the motivations, methods and appeal of Galaxy Zoo to the participating public, other…
Descriptors: Science Education, Astronomy, Scientists, Educational Technology