TY - GEN
T1 - Digital Divide, Local and Global? Surveying Augmented Reality Educational Usage in Europe and South America
AU - Heintz, Matthias
AU - Law, Effie L.C.
AU - Thanyadit, Santawat
AU - Nina, Hernan
AU - Andrade, Pamela
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023/5/26
Y1 - 2023/5/26
N2 - Augmented Reality (AR) has the potential to enhance students’ learning experiences. To deploy AR as educational tool, access to the requisite infrastructure and readiness of teachers are basic conditions to be met. The lack thereof is the digital divide that can undermine the opportunity and ability to use AR educational applications (AREAs) for students and teachers. Such issues were identified in a survey with a sample of European teachers on their educational usage of AR. We aimed to study the digital divide more globally by running the same survey with teachers in South America. We collected 123 valid responses from ten South American countries. Comparing the results of the two datasets showed that the teachers sampled from both continents were facing the challenges of the digital divide to utilise AREAs. We discussed how these challenges could be addressed to allow both, teachers and students, to benefit from AR as educational tool.
AB - Augmented Reality (AR) has the potential to enhance students’ learning experiences. To deploy AR as educational tool, access to the requisite infrastructure and readiness of teachers are basic conditions to be met. The lack thereof is the digital divide that can undermine the opportunity and ability to use AR educational applications (AREAs) for students and teachers. Such issues were identified in a survey with a sample of European teachers on their educational usage of AR. We aimed to study the digital divide more globally by running the same survey with teachers in South America. We collected 123 valid responses from ten South American countries. Comparing the results of the two datasets showed that the teachers sampled from both continents were facing the challenges of the digital divide to utilise AREAs. We discussed how these challenges could be addressed to allow both, teachers and students, to benefit from AR as educational tool.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85163306330
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-33023-0_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-33023-0_1
M3 - Articulo (Contribución a conferencia)
AN - SCOPUS:85163306330
SN - 9783031330223
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 3
EP - 15
BT - Learning Technologies and Systems - 21st International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2022, and 7th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2022, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - González-González, Carina S.
A2 - Area-Moreira, Manuel
A2 - Fernández-Manjón, Baltasar
A2 - Li, Frederick
A2 - García-Peñalvo, Francisco José
A2 - Sciarrone, Filippo
A2 - Spaniol, Marc
A2 - García-Holgado, Alicia
A2 - Hemmje, Matthias
A2 - Hao, Tianyong
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 21st International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2022 and 7th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2022
Y2 - 21 November 2022 through 23 November 2022
ER -