The Benefits of Augmented Reality In Education

What is Augmented Reality?

Augmented Reality (AR) is the technology that expands our physical world, adding a layer of digital information onto it. Unlike Virtual Reality (VR), which creates a whole artificial environment to replace the real world with digital, Augmented Reality adds a layer of digital reality on the real world.

Augmented Reality allows the user to remain in the real world, at the same time interact with the artificial objects on the screen.

Augmented Reality has a very high potential to revolutionize sectors that includes :

• Manufacturing
• Product Designing
• Education
• Content Marketing
• Medical Operations
• Tourism , etc.

And leveraging this high potential technology into education can completely change the way the education sector functions.

Benefits and Application of AR in education 

Incorporating a technology like Augmented Reality has been shown to improve the learning efficiency of the students. It is more effective in teaching students as compared to traditional books. From history to mathematics and physics to biology, with some creativity, AR can be incorporated in basically any subject.

AR's ability to seamlessly mix the digital and the real world encourages both, interaction and engagement. This combination of interactivity and engagement with emotions, can increase the ability of students to remember what they have learned - leading to a faster acquisition of skills and information.

The benefits of AR in education includes :

• Increase in content understanding
• Improved collaboration between students
• Increased student motivation to learn
• Improved reading
• Provided real life environment and scenarios
• Learning spatial concepts effectively
• Improvement in physical task performance
• Playing
• Minimize the time required to learn concepts and new technology

When combined with assignments that involve teamwork, Augmented Reality can help in dractically improving the collaboration and communication among students. It can stimulate interesting discussions among students and helps improve the knowledge graph of the students.

Requirement for AR in classrooms :

The minimum requirement to setup AR in a classroom may include :

• A good Internet connection
• Mobile devices (e.g. Smartphones, tablets, etc.)
• Augmented Reality applications. (especially those made for education purposes) 

Final Thought 

AR is evolving to become more and more cost friendly and effective. AR surely has a 'wow' factor to it, which increases the enthusiasm among students to learn.

With rapidly developing technology and increasing penetration in the day-to-day life, AR is on the verge of a breakthrough which will definitely transform many sectors.