Dr Maria Aristeidou

Online exams in higher education: Exploring distance learning students' acceptance and satisfaction (2024-02)
Aristeidou, Maria; Cross, Simon; Rossade, Klaus-Dieter; Wood, Carlton; Rees, Terri and Paci, Patrizia
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 40(1) (pp. 342-359)

Research disruption during PhD studies and its impact on mental health: Implications for research and university policy (2023-10-18)
Aristeidou, Maria and Aristidou, Angela
PLoS ONE, 18, Article e0291555(10)

Citizen Science: Schoolteachers’ Motivation, Experiences, and Recommendations (2023-10)
Aristeidou, Maria; Lorke, Julia and Ismail, Nashwa
International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 21 (pp. 2067-2093)

The impact of online exams on the quality of distance learners' exam and exam revision experience: Perspectives from The Open University UK (2023)
Cross, Simon; Aristeidou, Maria; Rossade, Klaus-Dieter; Wood, Carlton and Brasher, Andrew
Online Learning, 27(2) (pp. 27-45)

Young people in iNaturalist: a blended learning framework for biodiversity monitoring (2023)
Herodotou, Christothea; Ismail, Nashwa; Lahnstein, A.I. Ana; Aristeidou, Maria; Young, Alison; Johnson, F. Rebecca; Higgins, M. Lila; Khanaposhtani, G. Maryam; Robinson, D. Lucy and Ballard, L. Heidi
International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement ((Early access))

Online Community and Citizen Science supports environmental science learning by young people (2022-07)
Herodotou, Christothea; Ismail, Nashwa; Aristeidou, Maria; Miller, Grant; I.Benavides Lahnstein, Ana; Ghadiri Khanaposhtani, Maryam; D.Robinson, Lucy and L. Ballard, Heidi
Computers and Education, 184, Article 104515

Virtual Microscopes and online learning: Exploring the perceptions of 12 teachers about pedagogy (2022)
Herodotou, Christothea; Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Kelley, Simon
Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-learning ((Early access))

Disrupted distance learning: the impact of Covid-19 on study habits of distance learning university students (2021-08-29)
Aristeidou, Maria and Cross, Simon
Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-learning, 36(3) (pp. 263-282)

How Do Young Community and Citizen Science Volunteers Support Scientific Research on Biodiversity? The Case of iNaturalist (2021-07-13)
Aristeidou, Maria; Herodotou, Christothea; Ballard, Heidi L.; Higgins, Lila; Johnson, Rebecca F.; Miller, Annie E.; Young, Alison N. and Robinson, Lucy D.
Diversity, 13, Article 318(7)

Exploring the participation of young citizen scientists in scientific research: The case of iNaturalist (2021)
Aristeidou, Maria; Herodotou, Christothea; Ballard, Heidi L.; Young, Alison N.; Miller, Annie E.; Higgins, Lila and Johnson, Rebecca F.
PLoS ONE, 16, Article e0245682(1)

The Roles and Value of Citizen Science: Perceptions of Professional Educators Enrolled on a Postgraduate Course (2021)
Aristeidou, Maria; Ferguson, Rebecca; Perryman, Leigh-Anne and Tegama, Natalie
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6, Article 24(1)

Citizen Science in Higher Education (2021)
Hitchcock, Colleen; Vance-Chalcraft, Heather and Aristeidou, Maria
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6, Article 22(1)

What Do We Know about Young Volunteers? An Exploratory Study of Participation in Zooniverse (2020-01-13)
Herodotou, Christothea; Aristeidou, Maria; Miller, Grant; Ballard, Heidi and Robinson, Lucy
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 5, Article 2(1) (pp. 1-14)

Blended and online learning: A comparative study of virtual microscopy in Higher Education (2020)
Herodotou, Christothea; Muirhead, Dave K.; Aristeidou, Maria; Hole, Malcolm J.; Kelley, Simon; Scanlon, Eileen and Duffy, Marcus
Interactive Learning Environments, 28(6) (pp. 713-728)

Online Citizen Science: A Systematic Review of Effects on Learning and Scientific Literacy (2020)
Aristeidou, Maria and Herodotou, Christothea
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 5(1) (pp. 1-12)

Learning outcomes in online citizen science communities designed for inquiry (2020)
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 10(4) (pp. 277-294)

Designing citizen science tools for learning: lessons learnt from the iterative development of nQuire (2018-05-11)
Herodotou, Christothea; Aristeidou, Maria; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen
Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 13(4)

Profiles of engagement in online communities of citizen science participation (2017-09)
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
Computers in Human Behavior, 74 (pp. 246-256)

The Sense-it App: A Smartphone Toolkit for Citizen Inquiry Learning (2017-03-21)
Sharples, Mike; Aristeidou, Maria; Villasclaras-Fernández, Eloy; Herodotou, Christothea and Scanlon, Eileen
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 9(2) (pp. 16-38)

Technologies for citizen inquiry: participatory research in online communities (2021-08-04)
Aristeidou, Maria; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen
In: Burns, Danny; Howard, Joanna and Ospina, Sonia M. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry (pp. 496-512)
Publisher : SAGE Publications | Published : London

Design processes of a citizen inquiry community (2017-09-21)
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
In: Herodotou, Christothea; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen eds. Citizen Inquiry: Synthesising Science and Inquiry Learning (pp. 210-229)
ISBN : 978-1-138-20868-1 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon

Weather-it missions: a social network analysis perspective of an online citizen inquiry community (2015-09)
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
In: Conole, G.; Klobučar, T.; Rensing, C.; Konert, J. and Lavoué, E. eds. Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World, Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2015, Toledo, Spain, September 15-18. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 3-16)
Publisher : Springer

Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of Sixteenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning co-located with the Sixteenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2021) (2022-01-18)
Fominykh, Mikhail and Aristeidou, Maria eds.
Publisher : CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Citizen Science in Higher Education (2021-12)
Hitchcock, Colleen; Vance-Chalcraft, Heather and Aristeidou, Maria eds.

How do visualizations and automated personalized feedback engage professional learners in a Learning Analytics Dashboard? (2024)
Alcock, Sarah; Rienties, Bart; Aristeidou, Maria and Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Soraya
In : LAK '24: The 14th Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (18-22 Mar 2024, Kyoto, Japan) (pp. 316-325)

Students’ experiences of remote online exams at a distance learning university (2023-08)
Aristeidou, Maria; Cross, Simon; Rossade, Klaus-Dieter and Wood, Carlton
In : EARLI 2023: The 20th Biennial EARLI Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction (22-26 Aug 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece)

Examining university student satisfaction and barriers to taking online remote exams (2023-06-16)
Aristeidou, Maria; Cross, Simon; Rossade, Klaus-Dieter; Wood, Carlton and Paci, Patrizia
In : 9th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’23) (19-22 Jun 2023, València, Spain) (pp. 1-8)

Online remote exams in higher education: distance learning students' views (2023-03-27)
Aristeidou, Maria; Cross, Simon; Rossade, Klaus-Dieter and Wood, Carlton
In : INTED 2023 Proceedings (6-8 Mar 2023, Valencia, Spain) (pp. 2556-2563)

Evaluating the usability and learning potential of a virtual museum tour application for schools (2023-03-27)
Aristeidou, Maria; Orphanoudakis, Theofanis; Kouvara, Theodora; Karachristos, Christoforos and Spyropoulou, Natalia
In : INTED 2023 Proceedings (6-8 Mar 2023, Valencia, Spain) (pp. 2572-2578)

How do professional learners engage with learning analytics dashboards? (2023-03-14)
Alcock, Sarah; Aristeidou, Maria; Rienties, Bart and Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Soraya
In : 13th Learning Analytics Knowledge Conference (LAK23) (13-17 Mar 2023, Hybrid, Arlington, Texas, United States) (pp. 86-88)

From face-to-face environments to distance learning universities: the transition period of first-year students (2022-06-10)
Tessarolo, Felipe; Aristeidou, Maria and Coughlan, Emily
In : 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22) (14-17 Jun 2022, Valencia) (pp. 917-924)

Teachers’ initial views on Citizen Science in the classroom (2022-05-24)
Aristeidou, Maria
In : C*Sci 22 (23-26 May 2022, Online)

Virtual Museum Tours for Schools: Teachers’ Experiences and Expectations (2022-03-29)
Aristeidou, Maria; Kouvara, Theodora; Karachristos, Christoforos; Spyropoulou, Natalia; Benavides-Lahnstein, Ana; Vulicevic, Bojana; Lacapelle, Alexis; Orphanoudakis, Theofanis and Batsi, Zoe
In : 2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) (28-21 Mar 2022, Tunis, Tunisia) (pp. 201-209)

Youth environmental science learning and agency: A unifying lens across community and citizen science settings (2022-03-27)
Benavides Lahnstein, A.; Ballard, H.; Ghadiri Khanaposhtani, M.; Lorke, J.; Herodotou, Christothea; Miller, A.; Pratt-Taweh, S.; Jennewein, J.; Aristeidou, Maria and Ismail, Nashwa
In : NARST International Conference (27-30 Mar 2022, Vancouver, BC (online))

The impact of online exams on the quality of distance learners' exam and exam revision experience? perspectives from The Open University UK (2022)
Cross, Simon; Aristeidou, Maria; Rossade, Klaus-Dieter; Wood, Carlton and Brasher, Andrew
In : Innovating Higher Education Conference 2022 (19-21 Oct 2022, Athens, Greece)

First-Year University Students in Distance Learning: Motivations and Early Experiences (2021-10-10)
Aristeidou, Maria
In : EC-TEL 2021: Technology-Enhanced Learning for a Free, Safe, and Sustainable World (20-24 Sep 2021, Online (Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)) (pp. 110-121)

The impact of the Covid-19 disruption on distance learning higher education students and activities (2021-07-15)
Aristeidou, Maria and Cross, Simon
In : 7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (22-23 Jun 2021, Virtual) (pp. 695-702)

Transition and support experiences of first-year STEM students in distance learning universities (2021-06-29)
Aristeidou, Maria
In : Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference: Making Connections and Sharing Pedagogy (29-30 Jun 2021, Virtual) (pp. 72-73)

Experiences of teachers who have engaged their classrooms in citizen science activities (2021-05-25)
Aristeidou, Maria and Ismail, Nashwa
In : Citizen Science Association Conference (May 2021, Virtual)

Making citizen science accessible and productive for young volunteers: Lessons learnt from a 3-year study of Zooniverse. (2021-05)
Herodotou, Christothea; Ismail, Nashwa; Aristeidou, Maria; Miller, Grant; Robinson, Lucy and Ballard, Heidi
In : Citizen Science Association Conference (May 2021, Virtual)

Learning Opportunities and Outcomes in Citizen Science: A Heuristic Model for Design and Evaluation (2020-12)
Bruckermann, T; Lorke, J; Rafolt, S; Scheuch, M; Aristeidou, Maria; Ballard, H; Bardy-Durchhalter, M; Carli, E; Herodotou, Christothea; Kelemen-Finan, J; Robinson, L; Swanson, R; Winter, S and Kapelari, S
In : ESERA Conference 2019 (26-30 Aug 2019, Bologna, Italy) (pp. 889-898)

Perspectives on a researcher-practitioner partnership: Our role as practitioner researchers studying youth learning through participation in NHM-led citizen science (2020-09-09)
Pratt-Taweh, S.; Jennewein, J.N.; Miller, A.E.; Robinson, L.D.; Burton, V; Ballard, H.L.; Ghadiri Khanaposhtani, M.; Lorke, J.; Wardlaw, J; Higgins, L.M.; Young, A.N.; Johnson, R.F.; Herodotou, Christothea; Aristeidou, Maria; Miller, G.; Sanghera, H.; Benavides-Lahnstein, A.I. and Ismail, N.
In : European Citizen Science Association (9-11 Sep 2020, Trieste, Italy)

What do young volunteers learn from participation in online crowdsourced citizen science? Environmental science learning through Zooniverse (2020-09)
Herodotou, Christothea; Papathoma, Tina; Aristeidou, Maria; Miller, Grant; Ghadiri, Maryam; Lorke, Julia and Ballard, Heidi
In : ECSA conference 2020 (7-10 Sep 2020, Trieste, Italy)

Partnering science education research and citizen science practice: lessons from using a design-based research approach in the informal learning setting of natural history museums (2020)
Wardlaw, J.; Ballard, H.; Robinson, L.; Johnson, R.; Young, A.; Higgins, L.; Herodotou, Christothea; Lorke, J.; Ghadiri Khanaposhtani, M.; Miller, G.; Pratt-Taweh, S.; Jennewein, J.; Aristeidou, Maria; Burton, V; Papathoma, T. and Miller, G.
In : ECSA conference 2020 (7-10 Sep 2020, Trieste, Italy)

Inquiry learning at scale: pedagogy-informed design of a platform for citizen inquiry (2019-06-24)
Sharples, Mike; Aristeidou, Maria; Herodotou, Christothea; McLeod, Kevin and Scanlon, Eileen
In : L@S 2019: Sixth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (24-25 Jun 2019, Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Characterizing Youth Participation in Natural History Museum-led Citizen Science: Online and in the Field (2019)
Ballard, Heidi; Herodotou, Christothea; Lorke, Julia; Aristeidou, Maria; Robinson, Lucy; Johnson, Rebecca; Young, Alison; Higgins, Lila; Jennewein, Jessie; Miller, Annie; Pratt-Taweh, Sasha; Sanghera, Harpreet; Miller, Grant and Pauly, Greg
In : Citizen Science Association (13-17 Mar 2019, Raleigh, North Carolina)

“Don’t step on the volcanoes!” – Developing Environmental Science Agency through participation in Museum-Led Citizen Science Projects (2019)
Lorke, Julia; Ballard, Heidi L.; Aristeidou, Maria; Herodotou, Christothea; Ghadiri, Maryam; Swanson, Rebecca D. and Robinson, Lucy D.
In : The beauty and pleasure of understanding: engaging with contemporary challenges through science education (Proceeding of ESERA 2019) (26-30 Aug 2019, Bologna, Italy)

Tomorrow’s World nQuire: young people’s requirements for engaging with inquiry-led, civic engagement technologies (2018-11-13)
Aristeidou, Maria and Herodotou, Christothea
In : 17th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2018) (11-14 Nov 2018, Concordia University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA) (pp. 51-53)

Best Practice in Teaching with the Virtual Microscope: A Comparative Study of Blended and Online Learning (2018)
Herodotou, Christothea; Aristeidou, M.; Scanlon, E. and Kelley, S.
In : 7th eSTEeM Annual Conference (25-26 Apr 2018, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)

Design Guidelines for Sensor-based Mobile Learning Applications (2017-10-30)
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
In : 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2017) (30 Oct - 01 Nov 2017, Larnaca, Cyprus)

Students' engagement with practical science online: Pedagogical implications of the use of virtual microscope in distance learning (2017)
Herodotou, Christothea; Aristeidou, Maria; Kelley, Simon and Scanlon, Eileen
In : EARLI 2017 (29 Aug - 2 Sep 2017)

A Comparative Study of Blended and Online Learning using the Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences (2017)
Muirhead, David K.; Herodotou, Christothea; Aristeidou, Maria; Hole, M. J.; Kelley, Simon; Scanlon, Eileen and Duffy, M.
In : Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference: Making Connections and Sharing Pedagogy (39 Jun - 30 June 2017, Heriot-Watt University, UK)

Science learning in online communities of scientific investigations: evidence and suggestions (2017)
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
In : American Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2017 (27 Apr - 01 May 2017, San Antonio, Texas, USA)

Science Learning Experiences in Citizen Inquiry Communities (2017)
Aristeidou, Maria
In : CALRG Annual Conference 2017 (14-16 Jun 2017, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)

Engaging citizens in online communities of scientific investigations (2016)
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
In : Citizen Science Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy, First ECSA Conference 2016 (19-21 May 2016, Berlin, Germany) (p 53)

Weather-it: evolution of an online community for citizen inquiry (2015-10)
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
In : 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business (i-KNOW 2015) (21-22 Oct 2015, Graz, Austria)

Sense-it: A Smartphone Toolkit for Citizen Inquiry Learning (2015-10)
Sharples, Mike; Aristeidou, Maria; Villasclaras-Fernández, Eloy; Herodotou, Christothea and Scanlon, Eileen
In : Proceedings of 14th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2015 (17-24 Oct 2015, Venice, Italy) (pp. 366-377)

Inquiring Rock Hunters (2014-10)
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
In : 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014): Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities (16-19 Sep 2014, Graz, Austria) (pp. 546-547)

A design-based study of Citizen Inquiry for geology (2013-11)
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike
In : EC-TEL 2013 Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (17-21 Sep 2013, Paphos (Cyprus)) (pp. 7-13)

Citizen Inquiry: Engaging Citizens in Online Communities of Scientific Inquiries (2016-07-15)
Aristeidou, Maria
PhD thesis The Open University

Enhancing youth learning through Community and Citizen Science: a guide for practitioners (2021-07-31)
Robinson, L.D.; Miller, A.E.; Burton, V.J.; Herodotou, Christothea; Higgins, L.; Miller, G.R.M.; Young, A.N.; Ghadiri Khanaposhtani, M.; Benavides Lahnstein,, A.I.; Sanghera, H.K.; Johnson, R.F.; Aristeidou, Maria; Ballard, H.L.; Jennewein, J.; Lorke, J.; Pratt-Taweh, S.; Wardlaw, J.; Ismail, Nashwa; Pauly, G.B.; Papathoma, Tina and Swanson, R.D.
Natural History Museum, London

The impact of Covid-19 disruption on the learning activities of OU students (Final Report) (2021)
Aristeidou, Maria and Cross, Simon
The Open University

Online remote exams: Open University students’ views around the nuances and variants of online exams (2021)
Aristeidou, Maria; Cross, Simon and Rossade, Klaus-Dieter
The Open University