The Integration of 360 Google Earth into Teaching and Learning in The Tourism Geography and Culture Course

Zatul Iffah Mohd Fuza, Sulaiha Mohd Isa, Johanna Adlin Ahmad, Maisarah Abd Hamid, Ameleya Mohd Ghazali

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Higher education lecturers use interactive teaching to engage students in classroom and online sessions. As the tendency shifts from teacher-centred to interactive tools for teaching and learning, students who struggle to retain elaborative factual ideas and score poorly in knowledge assessments, including in Geography and Culture course, are expected to do well. Therefore, this study aims to improve education delivery by innovating interactive learning information through integrating 360 Google Earth into Geography and Culture Applications (GeoCA) as a platform for smart teaching and learning. A quantitative method was used, using a questionnaire to measure the effectiveness of the integration of Google Earth and Geoca among students who had been learning the Tourism Geography and Culture courses. Four primary characteristics, namely a) help to understand, b) help to memorise, c) perceive usefulness, and d) overall satisfaction, were attained to gauge the level of users’ satisfaction prior to their experience using GeoCA. Using SPSS v26, a descriptive statistic was produced beforehand to demonstrate the level of success of carrying out the integration method. Findings reveal that 45.2% respondents were very satisfied with exploring the GeoCA educational web that had been integrated with 360 Google Earth. More than half of the respondents strongly agree that perceived usefulness characteristics (f=51.4%) were the main reason for their satisfactory experience. With the integration and synergy of both interactive teaching and learning tools, contributing to the students' experiential learning periods will be exciting. Schools that teach geography and culture could also make use of it.

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