An Evaluative Study of GPS-Supported Outdoor Context-Aware Social Inquiry

• In Event: Poster Session 19
  In Poster Session: Poster Session: Research on Mobile Learning

Abstract

Mobile devices have been an integral part of the daily lives of today’s children and youngsters. Harnessing mobile technologies to offer learners new student-centred learning experiences is a very hot issue in education. Against this backdrop, we have proposed a learning approach—GPS-supported Outdoor Context-Aware Social Inquiry (GOCASI) to social and humanities education. Apart from discussing the pedagogic design of GOCASI, this paper also reports our recent study on evaluating the learning effectiveness of GOCASI, in comparison with the conventional outdoor social inquiry learning approach. It involved a total of 186 students from different academic-achieving schools in Hong Kong. The findings of the study provide grounds for upholding a wider adoption of GOCASI in social and humanities education.

Authors

• Morris S.Y. Jong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• To Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• JIE GENG, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Eric Luk, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Chin-Chung Tsai, National Taiwan Normal University

• Jyh-Chong Liang, National Taiwan Normal University

• Gwo-Jen Hwang, National Taiwan University of Technology & Science