AR Education Apps To Enhance Home-Learning

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The Covid-19 pandemic has shut schools and colleges throughout the world and has teachers resort to novel and innovative ways to reach out to students.

With schools scheduled to be shut at least till mid-June in most countries, teachers can use Augmented Reality in Education to tutor in virtual classrooms. AR places an overlay of the virtual over physical, allowing students to interact with content in an unprecedented way.

Due to the massive success of Pokemon Go in 2016, AR apps need no introductions to most kids. Their educators, however, have a lot of catching up to do, and we have curated a list of the best free AR apps for education.

Froggipedia (iOS)

Froggipedia AR app

When you were a student, you must have dissected a frog. Well, this is just like that except that it takes place in the virtual world.

It allows the teacher to walk the student through the life cycle of a tadpole as it hatches to become a frog.

It is a quite exciting experience without being laced by the odour of formaldehyde you get from an actual dissection. View the anatomy of the frog up close and, from any angle, explore its circulatory system or slice open its brain by applying your finger on the screen.

Augmented Class! Augmented Reality in Education (Android)

Augmented Reality in Education

Augmented Class is an easy to use platform for creating and sharing AR-based content with students. As a teacher, you need to have no knowledge of graphic design, and the intuitive and straightforward interface is, in no small extent, self-explanatory.

Principally it can be used to make presentations, including audio that have a three-dimensional feel and easily makes this one of the best AR Education Apps.

Boulevard AR (iOS and Android)

Boulevard AR App

 

Boulevard is an essential tool for history teachers. It brings everyone closer to the world of art and culture in a way that never experienced.

The app developers have a partnership with different museums and cultural sites around the globe and have created a walkthrough content that is impressive and exciting.

Narration by the curator of the National Portrait Gallery lays out the artist’s life and critical elements to observe in the artwork.

Statue of Liberty AR app (iOS)

Statue of Liberty AR app

This is a perfect example of how you can visit a historical site through a screen and see it as you never can in real life.

Yap Studios have developed The Statue of Liberty AR App. With narration by Diane von Furstenberg, it is an exceptional representation and only works on Apple devices that support ARKit found in iOS 12 and higher. The app shows 20 points of interest on the island and another 15 around the statue. Last but not least, the view of the New York skyline is breathtaking.

Plantale (iOS)

Plantale VR app

A must-have for biology tutors Plantale does for the plant kingdom what Froggipedia does for frigs. From germination to the development of leaves and roots, it lays out the growth of a plant in vivid detail.

A student can explore how the stem transports water up to the leaves and how the leaf creates glucose from sunlight with extreme ease.

Apollo’s Moon Shot AR (iOS and Android)

Apollo's Moon Shot AR

An exceptional AR Education app developed jointly by NASA and Smithsonian Institute on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in 2019 presents a look at the seminal moment of space exploration as never seen before. Based on the six-part television series that never revealed before known secrets and behind the scenes of the Apollo missions, it uses augmented reality to the hilt.

Given the technological prowess of NASA that is no surprise at all and the viewer feels that he is part of the moon mission from every vantage point – be it the mission control at Houston or the Lunar Excursion Module.

Civilisations AR (iOS and Android)

Civilisations AR

Produced by BBC, it enables anyone to explore archaeological artefacts in British museums from anywhere in the world. With that comes the revelation that AR not only allows us to explore the modern world but the ancient too. Peep into a sarcophagus from Torquay Museum or get close to Rodin’s The Kiss using this app.

There are over 30 artefacts that have been scanned in high resolution, and the combined image can be explored from any angle. It is genuinely breathtaking and shows what is possible through the imaginative use of available technology.

3DBear (iOS and Android)

3DBear AR Education App

A brand new AR Education app that allows teachers to create lessons and assignments using a 3D platform. The app is suitable for students K-12 and aids them in problem-solving through learning by doing pedagogy. It is exceptional for remote tutoring and allows the import of thousands of models from Thingiverse and Sketchfab.

It is the perfect solution to learning STEM subjects with an innovative approach.

Conclusion

The applications of AR in education has just begun. These apps have only started to scratch the surface. However, they show us how far-reaching the effects of this new technology would be and offers us a glimpse into the coming revolution in education.

 

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