Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a change in the style and dynamics of teaching, placing a great responsibility on distance education. Limitations of this teaching modality, such as little engagement, low adherence rates, and high dropout rates, have already been raised in several works. Incorporating tools and technologies that support and help teachers improve the learning experience can be one solution to these problems. In recent research in distance education, augmented reality technology is listed as one of the most effective ways to help achieve digital inclusion. Thus, technology could be incorporated into distance classes to increase student interaction, interest, and learning immersion. Therefore, this work aims to carry out a literature review on augmented reality applications for distance education, raising the main areas of application, target audience, technologies, research’s temporal and territorial distribution, the main advantages, and the challenges. From the 15 works raised in the Web of Science, it is concluded that it is a current and world-class research topic. The application areas are extensive, but the most common are medicine, biology, physics, materials science, and computer science. The primary use is through the cell phone using markers. The advantages and challenges of each application were raised. This work contributes to stimulating the generation of related works and spreading application ideas to achieve more dynamic and less traditional learning.

Keywords:

Augmented reality, survey, distance education, online learning.