Integrating Mobile Mixed Reality to Enhance Learning Before, During, and After Physical Field Trips

Background - Physical And Virtual Field Trips

Physical field trips, where students visit real-world locations as part of their learning, are a well-established feature of education in many countries, where students visit museums, theatres, zoos, and historical sites - activities that can have many valuable learning outcomes (Greene, Kisida & Bowen, 2014). Field trips have the potential to connect students to their learning situated in a real environment, promoting students’ engagement, and supporting collaborative learning. Previous studies have shown that field trip experiences provide opportunities both for cognitive and affective psychomotor learning (Seifan, Dada & Berenjian, 2019; Houser, et. al., 2011) and enable students to develop thinking skills and prepare a substructure for their future learning (DeWitt and Storksdieck, 2008) while the real-world learning helps them to develop transferable skills (Scott, Fuller & Gaskin, 2006).