Personal Digital Assistants for Fieldwork Training in College Campus
Education supported by mobile computers has been widely done for some time. Teachers have attempted to use mobile computers and to find concrete subjects for student-s fieldwork training in college education. The purpose of this research is to develop software for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) to conduct fieldwork in our campus, and to report a fieldwork class using PDAs in the curriculum of the Department of Regional Environment Studies.
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[1] P. Higgins, and G. Kirk, "Sustainability Education in Scotland: The Impact of National and International Initiatives on Teacher Education and Outdoor Education," Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol.30,
no.2, pp.313-326, July 2006.
[2] Y. Rogers, S. Price, C. Randell, D. Stanton-Fraser, M. Weal, and G.
Fitzpatrick, "Ubi-learning: Integrating outdoor and indoor learning
experiences," In Communications of the ACM, vol. 48, no.1, pp.55-59,
2005.
[3] M. Rost, L.E. Holmquist, "Tools for Students Doing Mobile Fieldwork,"
IEEE Computer Society, Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International
Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in
Education, pp.74-81, Mar. 2008.
[4] T. Y. Hsua, and C.M. Chen, "A Mobile Learning Module for High School
Fieldwork," Journal of Geography, vol.109, Issue 4, pp.141-149, 2010.
[5] N. Abe, N. Hasegawa, K. Koba, K. Moriyasu, and T. Sakai, "Development and Evaluation of Information Providing System Using
PDA and GPS for Nature Observation," Japan journal of educational
technology, vol.28, no.1, pp.39-47, 2004. (in Japanese)
[6] N. Yasukawa, T. Osaki, N. Hasegawa, K. Moriyasu, T. Sakai, "A
Practical study of Outdoor Education Using PDA and GPS at Elementary
Schools," The Technical Report of The Proceeding of The Institute of
Electronics, Information and communication Engineers, Educational Technology, vol.103, no.226, pp.41-46, July 2003. (in Japanese)
[7] K.Nishino, "A Practical Study of Information Education on Utilizing
Mobile: The Activities of Collecting Local Information by Japanese, American, and Korean Students," The Technical Report of The
Proceeding of The Institute of Electronics, Information and
communication Engineers, Educational Technology, vol.99, no.332,
pp37-42, Sep. 1999. (in Japanese)
[8] M. Nishizawa, N. Matsunaga, T. Inaba, "Implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous learning support for outdoor learning by RFID and mobile
devices," Proceeding of Japan Society for Educational Technology,
vol.10, no.1, pp49-56, Mar. 2010. (in Japanese)
[9] J. Pascoe, D. R. Morse, and N. S. Ryan, "Developing personal technology
for the field," Journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 2, no.1,
pp. 28-36, 1998.
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