How Augmented Reality Enables Conceptual Understanding of Challenging Science Content

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Augmented Reality Enables Conceptual Understanding of Challenging Science Content
Susan Yoon, Emma Anderson, Joyce Lin, Karen Elinich, Educational Technology & Society, 2017/01/12
We're on the verge of getting a deluge of papers like this: "we hypothesize that students acquire a more accurate understanding of the Bernoulli’s principle, a challenging science concept, by interacting with an augmented reality (AR) device." There's nothing wrong with that; we need to know whether games, virtual reality, augmented reality, etc., actually improve the user's understanding. More...