Geolocation Services in Education Outside the Classroom
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2016
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
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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.”
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Pavel Kapoun, Geolocation Services in Education Outside the Classroom, [in] International Journal of Research in E-learning, Vol. 2 (1), 2016, Editor-in-Chief Eugenia Smyrnova-Trybulska, Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2016, ISSN 2451-2583 (print edition), ISSN 2543-6155 (Online), p. 57-70.