Augmented Reality, an Enabler to Self Organized Learning

Abstract

From educational pupils in elementary schoolsto post-doctorate candidates to empower the new generation to attain a favorable attitude towards self learning, thinking, and innovation augmented reality (AR) application will provide and instill real value to students as well as educators alike. Schools of all sectors and specializations can utilize augmented reality in the creation of useful and productive tools which make both providers and receivers of education more efficient in their provision and attainment respectively. This work gives an introduction to augmented reality and its application in education, in addition to a demonstration of its usefulness including its application to extending education and educational material exposure to the layer of society with certain sensory impairment.

Keywords: Augmented reality, Google API, Automatic annotation, Object Identification