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How to Automate the Extraction and Analysis of Information for Educational Purposes
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Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal . Jan 2023 31(74):23-34. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- There is an increasing interest and growing practice in Citizen Science (CS) that goes along with the usage of websites for communication as well as for capturing and processing data and materials. From an educational perspective, it is expected that by integrating information about CS in a formal educational setting, it will inspire teachers to create learning activities. This is an interesting case for using bots to automate the process of data extraction from online CS platforms to better understand its use in educational contexts. Although this information is publicly available, it has to follow GDPR rules. This paper aims to explain (1) how CS communicates and is promoted on websites, (2) how web scraping methods and anonymization techniques have been designed, developed and applied to collect information from online sources and (3) how these data could be used for educational purposes. After the analysis of 72 websites, some of the results obtained show that only 24.8% includes detailed information about the CS project and 48.61% includes information about educational purposes or materials.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1134-3478 and 1988-3293
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 74
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1380507
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Descriptive