AR40ER: A Semantic Platform for Open Educational Augmented Reality Resources

Abstract

Tablet computers are gaining in presence in modern-day classrooms, enabling the use of a variety of apps for purposes such as note-taking or assessment. Augmented Reality (AR) experiences in the classroom, made possible by current hardware, permit new ways of interaction and visualization, as well as increase student motivation and engagement. They also overcome the need for potentially expensive hardware required for experiments in certain scientific domains. The movement of Open Educational Resources (OER) has enabled the sharing of heterogeneous learning resources. Their retrieval can be improved by enriching their metadata using Semantic Web technologies. In this paper, we present AR40ER, a semantic platform for heterogeneous AR experiences provided as OER. We showcase four AR scenarios from different school subjects. These scenarios can be integrated through a lose coupling in third-party apps. Apart from describing how this integration works, we demonstrate how a note-taking app can benefit from these scenarios.