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Studies have shown that interaction with the subject content in class is important to allow students to enrich their learning. Augmented Reality (AR) provides this unique capability of blending real and virtual worlds to allow students to be engaged in practical experiences. According to studies, the application of AR in the education sector is minimal mainly because government is not giving support financially. In Mauritius, the government vision is to equipped schools with tablets thereby increasing ICT literacy among students. Hence an AR application based on android platform has been developed to help Mauritian primary students to better comprehend the history and Geography subject. The AR application has been tested on different mobile phones in order to know the minimum requirements of device that can support the application. Furthermore, the application has been deployed on mobile phones of 10 teachers and feedback received from teachers was encouraging.
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Ramnarain-Seetohul, V., Nishesh, A., Siddish, L. (2019). Enhancing Learning at Primary School Through Augmented Reality. In: Fleming, P., Lacquet, B., Sanei, S., Deb, K., Jakobsson, A. (eds) Smart and Sustainable Engineering for Next Generation Applications. ELECOM 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 561. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18240-3_23
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