This week I will post a message about AR on multimedia learning. With the development and research of random technology, AR will also be widely used in our multimedia learning area, although there are still a few APPS using AR at present. For example, some common AR apps in daily life include Google Map, 3D virtual reality house viewing, and AR games. In the future virtual classroom, students and teachers can put on AR glasses to study topics together in the same space without physical contact. For example, the learner can use AR in interior design to learn space measurement, decoration, the physical environment, and display art through 360° and 3-D space. AR education is a new educational form and content produced by applying AR (augmented reality) technology in education. The essence of AR education is still education, but because of the combination with AR, there are many new characteristics and new teaching methods, learning methods. People can interact because AR combines the best of the virtual and real worlds. In education, AR can be applied in different scenarios, such as skill training and gamification learning. The application of AR in the training process of practical operation skills is probably the simplest. Because AR head display device develops very rapidly, it has been widely used in medical, military, commercial, and other aspects. AR teaching can provide a vibrant and three-dimensional learning environment and create a completely risk-free operating environment.
In medicine, for example, AR technology can display human organs and bones in 3D to train surgeons and medical workers. Both VR and AR can be used in digestive surgery. Patients are first scanned with CT or MRI and then simulated, and 3D modeling technology is used to generate a virtual human body that looks completely transparent. Surgeons can use fundamental surgical tools to carry out surgical training on the virtual human body, and interactive tracking can be carried out in real-time during surgical training. AR presents all the contents in 3D, which is very intuitive and vivid, helpful for students to understand and remember. For animals, plants, daily necessities, and other three-dimensional objects that are visible in reality, it is no longer necessary to imagine 3D images from planar 2D photos. AR can be visually displayed for radio waves, magnetic fields, atoms, and objects that are abstract or invisible to the naked eye, which helps to improve cognition and understanding.
AR is a good combination of the gamification of education that we studied earlier. Games are a quick and effective way to learn in many learning situations and can be very effective. The visualization and interactivity of AR can naturally design desirable gamification teaching content to significantly improve students’ learning willingness and stimulate their interest in learning. From passive learning to active learning.
AR application: Complete Anatomy
Complete Anatomy offers over 17,000 high-quality anatomical models. It covers almost all of the human anatomy, from macro to micro. Local anatomy of 206 human bones, head and neck, and blood vessels, muscles and nerves all over the body; Small to including the eyeball, teeth, aorta and other levels of micro-anatomical structures, and even the human body’s four central tissue cells, spermatogonial cells, egg cells 3D structures are included. I highly recommend this software for medical students, and you can use your iPad to explore various parts of the human body, using AR technology to display 3D anatomical models. The cool part is that AR can also show pain, bone growth, and fractures in the model.
Hi, Jingjing.
Thanks for your sharing; I am happy to read it. My exposure to AR technology is limited to Google Maps and an AR game; through your sharing, I found that the use of AR in our real life is still pervasive. This technology can help us very well. For example, the house viewing mentioned in your sharing makes it significant to apply AR to house viewing. Because I think the primary goal of people’s life is to have their own home, and the first thing we need is to have a house of our own, so the choice of house is significant. Everyone is living habits and aesthetics are different. If you look at the pictures to choose a house, the house likely does not match the pictures because of the lens’s wide-angle, light and angle, etc. However, through AR technology, whether you buy a house or rent a house, you can immerse yourself in it and understand the size and decoration of the house in more detail. I think this is a great help to our life.
On the other hand, integration into learning can also stimulate the students’ participation and the teacher’s interaction, which can also significantly improve learning efficiency. I once had a biology class where the teacher used the most traditional model to teach, and some parts of the organ class could only be observed through pictures and videos, which was a significant obstacle to the student’s understanding, so the results of my learning in that class were not very good. As you shared, this software can also simulate human injury problems and has a more visual and clear introduction to the structure of the human body. If I choose a similar course in the future, I will use this software to help me understand better.