The Covid-19 pandemic rapidly transformed online learning and the potential to further explore online learning. Augmented reality allows for students to tangibly online or virtually, it can take students to space to learn about the solar system or view plate tectonics in their hands.
Digital pedagogy would highly benefit from the implementation of augmented reality in real life. From my year-long co-op term working at the LTIS division at UVIC, I came across numerous courses at UVIC that would highly benefit from augmented reality. In particular Anthropology which requires immense analysis of bones, in offline classes they would often analyze these in real time and professors teaching these courses would have difficulty integrating this to the online environment. Augmented reality has become more affordable in recent years after the 1980s once the general public was exposed more to augmented reality this became a possibility (Elmqaddem, 2019, 236). Software like ARVRinEDU, offer these effects from tablet devices, offering the opportunity to the public and in the classroom environment for augmented reality (Torchia, 2021). Software like these give opportunities to students for more hands-on learning as they would in a typical offline environment.
While AR software has benefits for the online learning environment and in addition to the classroom environment offers additional support to the learning experience, they often require some degree of support in the classroom and should not replace in-person classrooms overall. Many students face barriers such as digital immigrant parents who are unable to provide technical support with the augmented reality experience. It is integral that with the implementation of augmented reality into classrooms we take into account educating digital immigrants with this experience.
References
Elmqaddem, N. (2019). Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Education. Myth or Reality?. International Journal Of Emerging Technologies In Learning (Ijet), 14(03), 234. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v14i03.9289
Torchia, R. (2021). Q&A: Virtual Reality Considerations in the Post-Pandemic World. Technology Solutions That Drive Education. Retrieved 30 May 2021, from https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2021/05/qa-virtual-reality-considerations-post-pandemic-world.
Well done with integrating our topics within your infographic. This covers a lot and looks great in your post. Seeing AR in courses would be great and in your example of bones would be amazing.