This free course, Citizen science and global biodiversity, deals with the importance of biodiversity and explores how anyone can contribute to and be involved in identifying and recording wildlife, as a citizen scientist.

Learning outcomes:

• Observe, record and analyse biodiversity.
• Join the iSpot community and learn from real examples how organisms are identified.
• Undertake observations and post these to the iSpot website.
• Use identification keys and other online aids to identification.
• Understand the use of a microscope as a tool to aid identification.