CityCompass: A Collaborative Online Language Learning Application

CityCompass supports conversational spoken language learning by means of way finding tasks. In CityCompass, two remotely located users, a tourist and a guide, collaboratively navigate in 360 degree panoramic views of a city, to reach a preassigned destination. Over one hundred and fifty students from schools in Germany, Finland and India have used the application for foreign language learning within their classroom activities. The project’s goal is to establish a global network of schools to connect students from various cultures and backgrounds for conversational foreign language learning.