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With the Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic and the disruption it brought to everyday life—including schooling and education—around the world, it is clear that there is an increasing need to rely on Web sources and applications for learning to continue as the databases for established sources catch up in their digitalization. The crux of the issue lies in how lay information on the ground can be connected to a more specialized body of knowledge. To replace a fieldtrip to Johor, Malaysia, that would have been undertaken under normal circumstances, students created a description of a historical placemark on Google Earth and completed a brief questionnaire reflection on their thought processes while crafting the write-up. A multidisciplinary paradigm combining metahistorical and adapted communication studies approaches was used to explore the students’ use of sources. The combined paradigm involved comprehending students’ understanding of the Battle of Johor through the content written up in Google Earth descriptions as well as students’ reflections on the exercise in the questionnaire. It is hoped that the study can contribute to an understanding of the mode and process of learning of a key historical topic in 20th-century developments in Malaya in Southeast Asia by tertiary-level students during the immediate post-COVID period.

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Using Google Earth in the Exploration of Historical Places: Combining the Crafting of Place Descriptions and Journaling of Students’ Meta-Processes for an Understanding of the Battle of Johor in World War II

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    2025年

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  • Teddy Y. H. Sim,
  • Han Wei Tan

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With the Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic and the disruption it brought to everyday life—including schooling and education—around the world, it is clear that there is an increasing need to rely on Web sources and applications for learning to continue as the databases for established sources catch up in their digitalization. The crux of the issue lies in how lay information on the ground can be connected to a more specialized body of knowledge. To replace a fieldtrip to Johor, Malaysia, that would have been undertaken under normal circumstances, students created a description of a historical placemark on Google Earth and completed a brief questionnaire reflection on their thought processes while crafting the write-up. A multidisciplinary paradigm combining metahistorical and adapted communication studies approaches was used to explore the students’ use of sources. The combined paradigm involved comprehending students’ understanding of the Battle of Johor through the content written up in Google Earth descriptions as well as students’ reflections on the exercise in the questionnaire. It is hoped that the study can contribute to an understanding of the mode and process of learning of a key historical topic in 20th-century developments in Malaya in Southeast Asia by tertiary-level students during the immediate post-COVID period.