Geolocation Services in Education Outside the Classroom

• Authors: Kapoun Pavel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Geolocation services such as Geocaching, Wherigo, or Foursquare are very popular all over the world nowadays. Millions of people are involved in these games, and, in addition to the entertainment, they learn about geography and history. Geolocation games can be used very effectively in instruction as well. The article contains analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of educational games using a geolocation service Geocaching. Sometimes the concept “educaching” is used, which was created by combining the words “education” and “geocaching.”

Keywords

EN

didactic game; geolocation services; GPS technologies; geocaching; educaching

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: International Journal of Research in E-learning IJREL
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 57-70

Dates

published

2017-04-10

Contributors

author

Kapoun Pavel

• University of Ostrava

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