What’s Your A ura? Using augmented reality to create engaging learning activities for students Karen Miller, Michele Gradisen and Jenny Lee
What’s Your Aura?
Using augmented reality to create
engaging learning activities for students
Karen Miller, Michele Gradisen and Jenny Lee
• What is augmented reality and how is it used in
higher education?
• How we are using AR at Curtin Library
• Aurasma – the ins and outs
• Let’s create an augmented reality ‘experience’
• Discussion
http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frrZbq2LpwI
Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality- TED talk on Aurasma
Access content
signage, publications, textbooks,
Storytelling, games
Create content
Learning activities
Assignments
Presentations
http://www.shu.ac.uk/mediacentre/students-use-hi-tech-ipads-medical-training
Accessing relevant content
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2014/04/augmented-reality-emerging-education-technology/
http://www.ucs.ac.uk/About/News/2012/20120305_UCS-bring-publication-to-life-with-augmented-reality.aspx
Leah Irving and Julie Hoffman, Curtin University Nyungar Place Stories Pilot: using augmented reality for Indigenous cultural sustainabilityPresented at Ascilite 2014https://app.box.com/s/016cdyv8dq1pp0yhp1vw/1/2704865198/23032570438/1
Location based learning activity
http://educade.org/lesson_plans/create-a-narrative-driven-scavenger-hunt-with-aurasma
Students create content –Narrative driven scavenger hunt
http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/06/the-wall-street-journal-goes-augmented-reality-and-publishes-a-bar-chart-with-actual-bars-for-3d-printers/
Incorporating AR with other activities –Data visualisation and 3D printing
The Curtin library experience
Collaboration with AHEAD (Addressing Higher Education Access Disadvantage)
Games based activities
• Library orientation activity
• John Curtin – biography and archives
http://youtu.be/LPDrb4xW6uQ
Video of Year 8 students playing ‘What a Kahoot’
Aurasma
• Key terms – trigger, overlay, aura
• Create auras with the ipad, or Aurasma studio
• Auras are accessed through ‘Channels’
Discussion questions• What are the benefits of using AR in teaching and
learning?
• What are the drawbacks / obstacles to using AR
• What key elements make using AR an authentic
learning experience
• How could you use it in your curriculum?
Activity
create an augmented reality
experience that adds meaning
to a set of images
Thanks! Karen Miller
Learning Services Coordinator
Curtin University Library
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