Experiencia formativa en el uso didáctico de la realidad aumentada con estudiantes del máster de formación del profesorado en educación secundaria en la Universidad de Málaga

Abstract

Within emerging educational technologies, we meet with the Augmented Reality (AR) as a methodological strategy with a great educational potential for the creation and production of interactive scenarios, dynamic and highly motivating for students. Thus, in this paper we present the most significant findings of a formative experience developed in the course "Society, Family and Education" with 123 students of the Master of Teacher Training in Compulsory Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Language Teaching and the specialties on Language and Literature, Geography and History, Health processes and Training and Guidance of the University of Malaga during the academic year 2015/2016. The methodology of the research was quantitative with exploratory and descriptive techniques in its first phase, and qualitative and interpretative, in a second phase. The questionnaire was administered with Survey Monkey (https://es.surveymonkey.com/home/) structured in a pretest that students must complete before receiving training sessions on the knowledge and use of augmented reality in education, and a post-test questionnaire that students answer after the teaching sesions. The objective of this experiment was to know and identify the students’ skills and attitudes towards AR and the advantages that such technology could pose in education at different levels and subjects. Among the results obtained after the development of four training sessions about implementation of augmented reality tools using Pre-test and Post-test techniques and the development of cloud concepts, we found that, in general, students have a positive attitude towards the educational use of the AR. Results were obtained after data collected, firstly with the pretest, before conducting the training sessions about Augmented Reality applied to Education over the first two weeks of November, and on the other side of the posttest, made available to the students throughout the first two weeks of December. The number of students who participated in the research was 87. After the analysis, we can confirm how the use of emerging technologies could be an appropriate and useful practice for students to play a active role in their education and being able to develop higher order skills and digital competences for the implementation of AR tools from an educational and didactic perspective.