Context-aware geography field trip with EagleEye: Teachers’ first experience

Abstract

EagleEye is a global positioning system (GPS)-supported integrated educational system for empowering teachers and students respectively to facilitate and pursue context-aware outdoor exploratory learning in Geography field trip activities. We conducted a quantitative study (complemented with qualitative methods) to investigate 98 teachers’ pedagogical perceptions of EagleEye and collect their feedback on its user-friendliness. Results showed that the teachers had positive perceptions towards this educational innovation, in terms of student-centredness, motivation, scaffolding, and user-friendliness; however, they had reservation about if EagleEye could better promote collaboration among students during a field trip activity. The findings shed light on our future work on implementing EagleEye in real teaching practice and provide insights for those who are engaging in developing, adopting, or appropriating mobile technologies to support learning and teaching.