Hybridizing Cooperative Learning, Adventure Education, and Gamification through orienteering races

Physical activity practice in the outdoors does not guarantee students' learning, since it can be reduced to technical skills or pleasant sensations. This article presents an educative innovation proposal, which aims to adapt the rules of orienteering races to the school environment; it promotes the development of social and interpersonal skills, as well as the understanding, preservation, and appreciation of the richness of the outdoors. To achieve it, Adventure Education, experiential learning, has been hybridized with Cooperative Learning, promoting interpersonal connections, and Gamification, providing a playful distribution of roles and the use of new technologies for self-assessment. Practical guidelines are presented to guide an educational intervention both in the regulations (objectives, participants, and beginning protocol), in the use of materials and spaces (incorporating self-constructed materials: consumer education; mobile apps: appropriate instruction in new technologies), and in formative and shared assessment.