Exploring a blended learning approach involving crowd mapping for developing sense of place

Coetzee, Serena; Davis, Nerhene; Schaab, Gertrud; Karanja, Faith; Struwig, Christiaan; Ndlovu, Hlamarisa

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Exploring a blended learning approach involving crowd mapping for developing sense of place

Serena Coetzee, Nerhene Davis, Gertrud Schaab, Faith Karanja, Christiaan Struwig, and Hlamarisa Ndlovu

Serena Coetzee

United Nations University Institute for the Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), Dresden, Germany

Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Nerhene Davis

Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Gertrud Schaab

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1515-5051

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

Faith Karanja

Department of Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Christiaan Struwig

Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Hlamarisa Ndlovu

Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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