Augmented Reality in Education: From Theory to Practice

Imagine a classroom where children don't just read about ancient geometry or distant oceans, but reach out and touch them, rotating a three dimensional shape in the air or swimming through a coral reef layered over their desks. This is the promise at the heart of this volume, which explores how Augmented Reality is transforming what it means to learn. Bringing together two threads of inquiry, the book first distills wisdom from 78 peer reviewed studies to map the global landscape of AR in education, revealing where this technology deepens understanding and why evaluation has remained stubbornly unanswered. It then journeys into Greek primary classrooms, where four vivid case studies show AR coming alive across language, geometry, and environmental science. But the most radical idea here is who gets to judge whether these tools work: not distant experts, but the children themselves. In a bold act of trust in young minds, students helped design the very rubrics used to evaluate their learning. Rooted in Greece yet speaking to schools everywhere, the volume offers researchers, teachers, and policymakers both a compass and an invitation to imagine learning anew.