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Strategic Partnerships for school education 2019-1-PL01-KA201-065137
Project: Teacher4.0 - comprehensive method of implementation of Industry 4.0
concept into didactic practice in primary and secondary schools

Augmented Reality as a real alternative to analogue didactic materials

Learning outcomes

After the teachers get acquainted with the theoretical part of the Module “Augmented reality as a
real alternative to analogue didactic materials”, they will:

• learn the meaning and difference between augmented reality and virtual reality.
• acquire the necessary knowledge on how to teach students using augmented reality among
teaching materials
• acquire the necessary skills needed in teaching students using augmented reality
• learn how to incorporate augmented reality into their teaching attempts

A good didactic process should use different methods and graphic training aids. Choosing them and
using them in an appropriate way is the key factor. Modern technologies can and should endow the
process of teaching. One of examples of using modern technologies in teaching can be so called
virtual reality (Virtual Reality – VR) or augmented reality (Augmented Reality – AR) which if
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introduced properly, can boost teaching effectiveness.
Introduction

Definitions:

Virtual reality (VR) it means a set of techniques which aim at making an impression of being in a
different reality than your environment. To make it possible, you need special glasses – VR goggles
which have special displays instead of glasses. Thanks to it, a person who is in the virtual reality looks
around a world which is generated by a computer in a real time. The precursor of the virtual reality
was Myron W. Krueger (born in 1942) – an artist, researcher and computer scientist.

Nowadays, thanks to the development of computer science, virtual reality is created by generating
visual and acoustic effects. Tactile experience, fragrance sensation or taste sensation are used rarely.
What is more, this technology allows an interaction with the environment generated by different
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manipulators.
In practice, virtual reality is seen as a system made of special software and equipment. Because of
many systems, they used to be defined as virtual reality. The role of software usually focuses on two
layers. In one of them, with the help of accelerators, it is aimed at processing the environment into

3 Marek KĘSY Dr inż., Politechnika Częstochowska, Wydział Inżynierii Mechanicznej i Informatyki,
POSZERZONA RZECZYWISTOŚĆ W EDUKACJI THE AUGMENTED REALITY IN EDUCATION
4 https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rzeczywisto%C5%9B%C4%87_wirtualna

This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the
author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any
use which may be made of the information contained therein.