Augmented Reality and Internet of Things Trends in Education

Abstract

Augmented Reality (AR) Technologies are gaining considerable attention due to their increased stability and reliability. Combined with the availability of smarter and cheaper devices, like smart-phones and tablets, AR technology greatly helps in enhancing the amount, relevance and ease of access of the available information. At the same pace, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies due to their pervasiveness, are paving the way towards a smarter interconnected world. Several industries, like entertainment, medicine and engineering, have developed and adapted IoT and AR technologies where the enrichment of the physical reality by the information and capabilities offered by AR proved useful for their business. The same approach should and could be the case in the education field. Nevertheless, the usage of IoT and AR technologies is still in its infancy, not following yet the path of many other industry fields. In this paper, after the presentation of contemporary AR and IoT technologies a proposal for utilizing these technologies to teach concepts that are required by the curriculum of the “Informatics Applications” course for the first class of senior high schools in Greece is presented.