EduVenture®

EduVenture® is a learning system with context-awareness that supporting teachers and students to facilitate and conduct outdoor field-trip learning. The system has three components: EduVenture®-Composer (EV-C), EduVenture®reg-eXplorer (EV-X), and EduVenture®-Retriever (EV-R). With these components, EduVenture® provides a complete solution allowing teachers to design and distribute learning materials, facilitate inquiry-based learning activities, as well as collect students’ work after completing the outdoor field-trip. Supported by the build-in GPS system on mobile devices (such as iPads ™), learning tasks in a certain location will only be triggered when students actually walking through the intended physical area. Although learning spots are prepared by teachers in advance, students can follow their own paths to learn. Such a design is aimed at transforming students into active explorers and stimulating their motivation to learn in the meantime. Overall, EduVenture® addresses various obstacles in current practices of outdoor learning, including challenges in stimulating learning interests, difficulty in catering for diverse learning needs, limitations in the delivery of learning contents and the lack of geographical orientation for students in an outdoor environment.