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Are lectures a relic of the past? Is our attention span shrinking dangerously? I am not sure how to respond to these questions. I have observed repeatedly that students returning on campus seem more disengaged than ever before, struggling to cope with their physical and mental well-being in the after-Covid 19 eras. Therefore teaching ought […]

A first evaluation of AR platforms took place in different courses of Art & Design AKTO college. In a peer learning situation, students analyzed the use of Vidinoti V – Director in an Art History course, and they tried out AR Media Player and Jig Space for the use in a course on interactive media. […]

A first case study testing AR and its role in peer learning took place at iPEAR coordinating institution FAU (Germany). Our educator at FAU sport science Markus Näser tested AR tools with 30 students in a Basketball training session. The test phase took place in June with two lessons in different basketball courses. Markus combined the interactive […]

The ninth event on “Augmented Reality for Education” was held on 07.12.2020 in a fully online format via Zoom. It was organized in collaboration with Code Reality and iPEAR, our new Erasmus+ project. It featured Mark Billinghurst, University of South Australia and University of Auckland, New Zealand, with a joint keynote on “Moving beyond questionnaires to evaluate […]

This month the briefing of educators supporting iPEAR at FAU (Germany) took place. All educators are excited to try out AR in a lecture of their choice and they will develop ideas now which AR apps and platform would serve them most and how to include the experience in a lecture during one or two […]