Analysis of Students’ Need for Augmented Reality As An Art Learning Medium in Primary School Teacher Education at Universitas Sebelas Maret

Abstract


 There is an increasing number of students  using smart phones and tablets in Elementary
 teacher education college. Mobile devices gained popularity as an  educational tool and there are many colleges
 that used them frequently in educational activities to improve learning. There
 are many augmented reality (AR) applications  
 available that can be used to create educational contents for these
 mobile devices.This paper surveys students’ need for the importance of using
 augmented reality as a media in art learning. Ourgoalis to develop prototype
 augmented reality media as a follow up of the needs analysis conducted on
 elementary school teacher education students. The aim of this study is to
 obtain 1) description of the use of learning media as teaching resource on art
 learning process, that has been happening in the field 2) formulation of
 learning media that needs to be developed on art learning. This research is
 based on the unavailability of learning media that can develop student
 appreciation to achieve a more meaningful understanding in appreciating the artwork
 in the subject of Art Education.The study is development study in the early
 stages of needs analysis. The results of descriptive analysis of the study
 found that 1) the use of learning media as teaching resource on art learning
 process that has been happening in the field has not done optimally. 2) The
 learning media that needs to be developed in art learning is in the form of
 augmented reality.