KEI-time traveler: visiting a past world with mobile phones to enhance learning motivation

ABSTRACT

KEI-Time Traveler is a system using commercially available phones equipped with GPS. It enables students to do fieldwork with a visit to a past environment from the corresponding location in the present world. Students experienced such fieldwork to visit the site of a landslide disaster in 1938. We evaluated the system and found that KEI-Time Traveler enhanced motivation and helped students learn about their local area's history.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.m MISCELLANEOUS

Keywords:
GPS, brew, location-awareness, mobile learning, mobile phones, outdoor learning, virtual world