Features
What is ARTutor?
ARTutor is an Augmented Reality Educational Platform developed by Advanced Educational Technologies and Mobile Applications (AETMA) Research Lab at the Democritus University of Thrace, since 2016.
ARTutor is available free of cost to all the educators and the students arround the globe, in order to help them to develop technology enhanced educational material and improve the educational performances and experiences.
ARTutor, aims to “Immersive Education for All” vision, in accordance to the UNESCO initiative “Education for All”, trying to remove socioeconomic or cultural barriers which prohibit the access to high end educational technologies and to the technology enchased learning in general.
Its focus is on adding digital content on traditional educational books and other texts, with the aim of assisting the students’ independent study and ultimately improving the understanding of the material.
The main impact of ARTutor in the field of education can be summarized to the following objectives:
- Maximize students’ engagement to the educational material (textbooks).
- Enable teachers with limited IT skills to develop augmented reality books and create highly engaging and immersive educational activities and experiences in the class.
- The implementation of a single mobile application to enable students to access all the augmented reality books in order to enhance their study and to promote independent, self-paced distance learning
- Easy interaction with the enhanced digital content of any book using haptic commands in order to assist even students with movement disabilities
Where can I use ARTutor?
ARTutor is a domain-independent platform that can be used in many fields.
What content can I add as augmentation to my AR Experiences.
Share AR experiences with 3 simple steps.
Build complex 3D scenes, using the AR Experience editor
Build complex scenes to be used as augmentations
Add images, videos and 3D models to the scene
Add shapes such as Planes, Boxes, Spheres, Cones and Cylinders.
See the final result in the ARTutor mobile application
Get the ARTutor mobile application
Available for all Android devices that support ARCore
If the application is not available for your device at Google Play, you can download it from here
Available for all iOS devices that support ARKit.
Join Us in an upcoming Webinar.
We organize several webinars in order to promote ARTutor in education.
Our goal is to present the ARTutor platform to educators and other interested parties.
After each Webinar, participants can easily:
- Manage the ARTutor Web platform environment.
- Create their own AR Experiences (books) using their own material.
- Install the ARTutor mobile application in their device and view their first AR Experience.
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