Evaluating an Educational System Based on Projective Augmented Reality

Abstract

Augmented Reality has the potential to play an important role in education since it can help to motivate the students and foster the interaction between the content and the learners. In this work, we explore the potential of the ARBlocks, a dynamic blocks platform for educational activities using projective augmented reality and tangible user interfaces. A semi-experiment was carried out with two first grade groups in order to attest if the tool could help the development of their literacy skills. Three different metrics were used to evaluate it, being two quantitative and one qualitative. The evaluation indicated that the tool contributed to the student's educational development and fostered their literacy progress. In addition, the teacher was very enthusiastic of its use.

Investigating the Role of Augmented Reality Technology in the Language Classroom / Istraživanje uloge tehnologije proširene stvarnosti u nastavi jezika

“…The findings of this study were consistent with the results of the current literature, because all the experimental studies reported positive outcomes and effectives on behalf of AR technology application (Barreira et al, 2012;Gün, 2014;Silva et al, 2013;Tan & Lui, 2004). For example, Perez-Lopez and Contero (2013) revealed that AR technology contributed to students' achievement and longer memory retention.…”

Perspectives on how to evaluate augmented reality technology tools for education: a systematic review

“…The most common way was the teacher(s), or in some cases, schools directors, working as consultants or curators. Teachers were consulted for different purposes, such Table 5 Technologies AR is combined with Study Reference AR Combination [50], [44], [42], [74], [71], [52], [64], [38], [32], [37], [69], [49], [80], [62], [7], [36], [9], [79], [48], [31], [8], [10], [45], [53], [18], [75], [19], [20], [51], [8], [77], [30], [82], [67], [70], [76] None [13] YouTube tutorial [27] Personal blogs [28] Digital sketching [17] Notes and texts provided by the teacher […”

“…Cubillo et al [17] reports that the teachers can follow an established procedure to create content using the tool. In da Silva et al [19] and da Silva et al [20], teachers were not able to create the applications by themselves since the AR tool evaluated needs an authoring tool, but they were able to design the activities to be worked and programmers created the content accordingly.…”

Evaluation of Augmented Reality Technology in the English Language Field

“…Additionally, different activities can be done with the same set of blocks. Although preliminary, recent evaluation supported the hypothesis that the ARBlocks can help to motivate students and foster the literacy development [Silva et al 2013]. …”