Augmented Reality: Educational Resources

Background

Students are surrounded by a great network of knowledge in today’s world. Students’ previous experiences, content knowledge, cognitive, and motivational individual differences influence their construction of knowledge (Alexander et al., 1998). The success of combining real and virtual environments and making virtual statements meaningful are significant in bringing the two environments together. This makes it easier to construct knowledge (Zagoranski & Digipak, 2003). AR environments contribute to education because they contribute to the development of students’ psychomotor skills and activate more sense organs in learning by including more sensors (Hanson & Shelton, 2008). AR environments are not burdensome because virtual objects are transferred to the real environment (Woods et al., 2004): they help individuals increase their personal experience because they enable participants to become practitioners (Matsumoto, 2009; Müller et al., 2007; Müller & Ferreira, 2004).