Linked data-driven geographic mobile learning application

Abstract

Some problems that commonly stated by students who learn geography are too much information and definitions to be memorized, not interesting or enjoyable, difficult and so on. The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) media hopefully can help to solve this problem. Currently, most students have been familiar using mobile devices. Therefore, it is a potency to develop a geography learning application especially for mobile devices. This paper exhibits the development of geographic mobile learning application. The employment of Linked Data as information sources, i.e. DBpedia and LinkedGeoData, can help us to provide rich information with minimum efforts. The evaluation showed that the application got more than 85% positive responses in terms of ease of use, ease of learning, usefulness, pleasant and intention to use the application.