Breaking out of the traditional lecture hall: Geocaching as a tool for experiential learning in large geology service courses

Lazar, Kelly Best; Moysey, S. M.; Brame, Scott; Coulson, Alan B.; Lee, Cindy M.; Wagner, John R.

doi:10.1080/10899995.2018.1453191

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“…As for project presentation, the students were actively engaged and more fluent in promoting their own project. It was similar with the research carried out by Lazar, Moysey, Brame, Coulson, Lee, and Wagner (2018) that focused on breaking out the traditional lecture by applying experiential learning in geogology course. They reported that the students' participation and curiosity were higher.…”

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“…Previous research conducted by Warsito (2015) also concluded that implementing experiential model learning increases both students' achievement and students' mastery on certain learning materials. The implementation of experiential learning absolutely led to the students' higher participation and enjoyment during learning process since all the materials were successfully delivered to the students (Lazar, Moysey, Brame, Coulson, Lee, & Wagner, 2018). In other words, implementing model of experiential learning will encourage the students to share their own experience during the project completion.…”

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Integrating Teaching Models to Enhance Efl Students’ Interpersonal Communication Skill and Creativity

Lubis

Ashadi

2018

IJELS

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This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of integrating project-based learning and experiential learning models toward students’ interpersonal communication skill and creativity particularly in using English. This research was conducted by applying quantitative research method with factorial design 2X2 ANOVA The subjects were English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in English Department of Universitas Muslim Nusantara (UMN) Al Washliyah Medan, Indonesia.The instrument was a questionaire with Likert scale and used to measure each formulated indicator. The data were analyzed by using multivariate ANOVA (MANOVA) The finding of the research showed that project-based learning and experiential learning models had a significant effect on students’ interpersonal communication skill and creativit. Moreover, interaction was found between communication skill and creativity of students taught by implementing the models. It indicated that ELT classroom activities will be more creative integrating these teaching models. It allows EFL learners to explore knowledge and information independently and to use English as natural as they can either in speaking or writing.

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Integrating Teaching Models to Enhance Efl Students’ Interpersonal Communication Skill and Creativity

Lubis

Ashadi

2018

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“…education with the use of geocaching allows to: • take over the responsibility for learning by students (christie 2007; ring 2014; ihamäki 2015b), to encourage for further expanding one's knowledge (Blažek et al 2016;Pombo et al 2017Pombo et al , 2018lazar et al 2018), to increase the level of teaching (ihamäki 2007a),…”

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Geocaching in education – a review of international experiences Part 1. Introduction: advantages and problems

Referowska-Chodak

2020

Forest Research Papers

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This article discusses the advantages and challenges of geocaching in education, based on a literature review. The aim is to aid the implementation of similar methods for education in Poland, in particular in the field of forest education.The most important advantages of educational geocaching include: 1) going out to the field, including direct contact with nature, which promotes positive reception by the educated and helps to shape respect and responsibility towards the environment; 2) enhancing enthusiasm and motivation to work brought about by the joy of searching for treasures, satisfaction from achievements and learning through play; 3) versatility including acquisition of multidisciplinary knowledge, developing skills, problem solving, combining theory and practice as well as physical activity. On the other hand, the problems one faces with the use of geocaching include a lack of knowledge and practice of most educators, fear and reluctance to change the traditional way of teaching, the laborious preparation of geocaching, limitations set by nature such as a short duration of some phenomena or dependence on the weather as well as the pressure on nature resulting from this educational method, which could cause or increase trampling of vegetation and erosion.In overall, due to the comprehensive advantages of educational geocaching, it should be more widely implemented in both formal and non-formal education in Poland. In the case of the latter, the extensive experience of, among others, foresters, employees of national parks or landscape parks in field education provides further support for geocaching as a useful educational tool. An additional supporting argument is the not always satisfactory effectiveness.Taking the experiences gathered in other countries into account, especially concerning potential risks and problems, as presented in this article, it is possible to take full advantage of geocaching as a tool or strategy in education, including forest education.

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Using Virtual Reality as a Tool for Field-Based Learning in the Earth Sciences

Moysey

Lazar

2019

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Virtual Place-Based Learning

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Breaking out of the traditional lecture hall: Geocaching as a tool for experiential learning in large geology service courses

Cited by 9 publications

References 46 publications

Integrating Teaching Models to Enhance Efl Students’ Interpersonal Communication Skill and Creativity

Integrating Teaching Models to Enhance Efl Students’ Interpersonal Communication Skill and Creativity

Geocaching in education – a review of international experiences Part 1. Introduction: advantages and problems

Using Virtual Reality as a Tool for Field-Based Learning in the Earth Sciences

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