Published: 2016-02-01

Geolocation Services in Education Outside the Classroom

Pavel Kapoun

Abstract

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 “edu-cation” and “geocaching.”

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Kapoun, P. (2016). Geolocation Services in Education Outside the Classroom. International Journal of Research in E-Learning, 2(1), 57–70. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/IJREL/article/view/8376

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016)
Published: 2019-12-13


ISSN: 2451-2583
eISSN: 2543-6155

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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