自願性地理資訊的教育應用: 建置臺灣地球寶藏尋寶網站

The rapid development of volunteered geographic information (VGI) has been regarded as a new paradigm of geographical sciences in recent years. By integrating more geographic information to the raw digital map, the citizens contribute their personal data and revealed their authentic life stories. The collaborative VGI of network communities gradually made profound impacts on contemporary science, commerce, politics, military, and education. The aim of this study is to build a location-based game learning website, named The Earthcache Website. In this website, the geography teachers and students of senior high schools in Taiwan are defined as not only the major consumers but also content providers of the VGI. By promoting learning geography through playing outdoor activities, we hope more teachers and students will participate in geography field studies. This project also provides a detailed local case study to the contemporary research agenda of the VGI applications in geographic education.