Abstract

Like many other university teachers, we were faced with an unprecedented situation in spring 2020, when we had to cancel on-site teaching and excursions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, we were in the fortunate position that we had already started to develop a smartphone-based self-guided excursion on the topic of "Water in the City". We accelerated this development and used it to replace the traditional group excursion in our Bachelor level introductory course in Hydrology and Climatology. The excursion of this course is visited by around 150 students each year. Because the student feedback was overall very positive, we used the self-guided excursion again in 2021 and plan to continue to use it in the coming years. In this paper, we describe the excursion, discuss the experiences of the students and ourselves, and present recommendations and ideas that could be useful for similar excursions at other universities.

Keywords

field trip; undergraduate teaching; hydrology; mobile phone; treasure hunt; student evaluation

Published in

Frontiers in Environmental Science
2022, Volume: 10, article number: 875712
Publisher: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA

SLU Authors

• Seibert, Jan

  • Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • University of Zurich

Sustainable Development Goals

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all


UKÄ Subject classification

Learning
Pedagogy


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.875712

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/117345