Collaborative Learning about Augmented Reality from Technology and Business Perspectives by Mark Frydenberg and Diana Andone paper presentation at The 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies - #ICALT2017 July 3-7, 2017 Timisoara, Romania

1. Collaborative Learning about
Augmented Reality
from Technology and Business
Perspectives
Mark Frydenberg
Bentley University, USA
@checkmark
Diana Andone
Politehnica University Timisoara, RO
@diando70
#ICALT2017

2. Augmented reality in education
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/App_iSkull%2C_an_augmented_human_skull.jpg
https://hs-flensburg.de/onlinestudium/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/augmentedrealityhs_wismar01.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/people/turkletom/?rb=1
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Total_Immersion_Augmented_Reality.jpg

3. Augmented reality in education
• AR uses in higher education are related to science
(40.6%), followed by humanities and arts (21.9%),
engineering (15.6%), and social sciences (12.5%)
(study between 2010-2014)
J. Bacca, S. Baldiris, R. Fabregat, S. Graf and Kinshuk, "Augmented Reality Trends in
Education: A Systematic Review of Research and Applications," Educational
Technology and Society, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 133-149, 2014.

4. TalkTech Project
www.talktechproject.net

5. TalkTech 2008 -2016 Students
960 students involved, no dropout
Boston, Bentley Univ
Intro to Information Technology
45 students per year (37 in 2016)
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 19-23
Timisoara, UPT
Multimedia Technologies
50 students per year (70 in 2016)
Spoke English
Frequently use the web, computers,
and mobile devices
Age 21-23
International Virtual Mobilities

6. Project Goals
Work with students from another country to
research a technology topic and present those
results using collaborative multimedia tools
Identify and use both synchronous and
asynchronous tools to communicate with
international partners
Produce a tangible work product within a
designated period of time

7. TalKTech 2016 research questions
• What technologies and AR tools
will students use to create their
own original artifacts?
• How will creating original
artifacts help them understand
the impact of AR and its
business applications?
• How do students express
innovation and creativity using
AR?

8. TalkTech 2016 project
project-based learning approach
to introduce AR concepts into business and
technology education by engaging students
to create AR artifacts related to a particular
industry
students create in a group-work their own AR
artifacts
it allows them to synthesize their research
about applications of AR and VR, and apply
their technology skills

9. TalkTech Topics – Roadmap 2016
• Explore uses of AR / VR in
one of these industries.
• Create your own AR artifact
to present to your
international partners.
Create a video demo.
• Research an application of
VR in your chosen industry
and summarize your
findings.
• Use ThingLink as a
presentation platform.
Advertising /
Promotion
Architecture
/ Interior
design
Education /
Training
Fashion Gaming Health care
Mapping Museums Sports
Travel/
Tourism

10. Prior student use of technologies introduced in
TalkTech 2016
2. Google+
3. Google Drive
4. ThingLink
5. Vine
6. Any AR/VR apps
American students
Romanian students

11. Structure, planning, guidelines,
project based activity

12. Live online
TalkTech 2016 students AR
examples discussions

13. ThingLink
TalkTech 2016 Students

14. ThingLink
TalkTech 2016 Students

15. Aurasma
Blippar
TalkTech 2016 students AR
examples

16. Aurasma
Blippar
TalkTech 2016 students AR
examples

17. Aurasma
Blippar
Layar
TalkTech 2016 students AR
examples

18. Aurasma
Blippar
Layar
TalkTech 2016 students AR
examples

19. Live online in Timisoara
TalkTech 2016 project final
presentations

20. Live online in Waltham, MA
TalkTech 2016 project final
presentations

21. TalkTech 2008 – 2016 - TOOLS

22. Students’ attitude toward technologies used in
TalkTech 2016
1. Mobile phone / smartphone
2. SMS – text messaging
3. Search engines (such as Google)
4. Online/mobile chat (Yahoo, MSN,
Google chat, others)
5. VoIP (Skype, Hangouts, Viber,
etc.)
6. Mobile chat (WhatsApp, Viber)
7. Online video (YouTube, etc.)
8. Online photo sharing (Flickr,
Picassa, etc.)
9. Online games
10. Blogs
11. Wikipedia
12. Facebook
13. Twitter
14. Collaborative Writing (Google
Docs /Drive, Microsoft Office
Online, etc.)
15. Vine
16. Augmented reality

23. Students’ Communication tools used in
TalkTech 2016
1 – Skype (audio/video
conferencing)
2 – Google+ Hangouts
3- Facebook Messenger
4- Email
5 – Facebook or Twitter
6- Online document sharing

24. Students’ perception on which tools allowed
them to be most creative in TalkTech 2016
1. Facebook
2. Vine
3. Periscope
4. YouTube
5. ThingLink
6. Skype
7. Pixton
8. AR apps

25. Students’ AR creation tools used in TalkTech
2016

26. Student Reflections in TalkTech2016

27. Multicultural
Online – different time zones
Simulate real world work in an IT company
Students freely choose the tools, communication, working time and
hours, result
Analysing, curating, synthetizing and creating digital media artifacts
students interrogate their digital learning
Planning, discussing, posting, and sharing this work online with
international partners provides an opportunity for validating their
information, media literacy and communication skills
TalkTech 2008-2016 Virtual mobilities

28. http://www.slideshare.net/diando70/
Mark Frydenberg
Senior Lecturer
mfrydenberg@bentley.edu
@checkmark
Dr. Diana Andone
Director, e-Learning Center,
diana.andone@cm.upt.ro
@diando70