What digital educational resources are in use by UNESCO Global Geoparks? Report 1 from the GeoSite project

Abstract

This is the first of two reports from the ERASMUS+ project GeoSite. This first report aims to establish an overview of the digital educational resources available and already in use by UNESCO Global Geoparks, intended for use by both the GeoSite project and others interested in developing digital educational resources for Geoparks. The report presents a survey of digital educational resources available on the websites of UNESCO Global Geoparks in Europe.

The report finds that about half the surveyed geoparks offer digital educational resources. Of these, the majority were either text-, picture- or video-based resources, with the first two being the most prevalent. Technically more complex resources, such as downloadable programs, apps or games, were very rare, and as illustrated by some of the highlighted cases, difficult to maintain.