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Design 'the Pori hidden beauties geocaching series': computer-supported collaborative web-based learning and sharing experiences

2015; Inderscience Publishers; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1504/ijwbc.2015.068538

1741-8216

Pirita Ihamäki,

Educational Games and Gamification

This article presents the creation of social game, result of collaborative learning and sharing experience supported by computer. 'The Pori hidden beauties geocaching series' was built on face to face classroom sessions and by the Facebook social network. Geocaching is a global treasure hunt game that uses GPS technology to find geocaches all over the world. The study findings show how socio–contextual enhancement can increase performance through computer–supported collaborative learning on Facebook and task–driven geocaching games, while also suggesting that it can increase student activity and engagement when provided in a specific context like this study in Pori National City Park for non–task–driven game environments. The result has present increasing availability of geocaching game is changing the way people interact with the web, and bring us a large amount of GPS trajectories representing user's location histories and stories.