| Augmented Reality and Learning: Investigating
the Potential of a Unique Technology |
November 18, 2003
Brett Shelton - Educational Technology, College of Education, UW
Tom Furness (discussant) - Professor, College of Engineering and Director of the
Human Interface Technology Laboratory, UW |
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This presentation focuses on research that explores the uses of augmented reality (AR) to teach undergraduate students earth-sun
relationships. The students engaged in a designed instructional activity while
experiencing virtual animated 3D models in a "real" environment. The investigator
used a conceptual change model based on the students' reorganization of "coordination
classes" during the analysis of their videotaped activity. Students learned about
rotation and revolution, solstice and equinox, and seasonal variation of light and
temperature as a result of their AR experience. They learned by creating and modifying
strategies for obtaining small pieces of information about dynamic spatial relationships,
and by reorganizing the inferences made from "new" information. Students' understandings
of earth-sun relationships more closely matched that of an expert as a result of guidance
and physical/visual task-related activities. |
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