IT Education and Kometrika: Textbooks with augmented reality

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• Augmented reality (AR, Augmented Reality)
• IT in formation of the Russian Federation
• IT in education
• Electronic textbooks (EOR)

2020: The announcement of development of textbooks with augmented reality

On July 21, 2020 it became known that the Prosveshcheniye Group and ICKX Holding develop the updated format of textbooks with augmented reality. The technology is created within IT Education joint venture and the Media library of Prosveshcheniye will be available in the mobile application developed by Kometrika company and on the platform ".

"Education" and ICKX Holding develop textbooks with augmented reality. Photo: activityedu.ru.

We develop the full-fledged educational ecosystem including materials according to the theory of a subject, digital exercise machines with additional tasks and tests, instruments of group work with a class, tools and a technique of estimation by the teacher of the tasks performed by pupils. Simple transition to additional content in the form of audio-and video records, a priori necessary for a learning of foreign language is organized. Tatyana Serebryakova, the deputy chief editor on development of Prosveshcheniye publishing house told (enters into the Group of the same name)

As it was reported, experimental materials with interactive solutions were textbooks of English of 10-11 classes of the Spheres series which are familiar to teachers and are used at schools. Mobile application allows to see on pages of the textbook via the camera of the smartphone or the tablet markers of augmented reality (AR) and to get access to additional digital content. Content will also be available on the computer if the pupil has no mobile device. For this purpose it is necessary to be registered on the platform "the Media library of Education.

Technical solutions to textbooks of the updated format are created IT Education (joint venture Prosveshcheniye Group and "IKS of Holding"). Mobile application for OC iOS Android is also developed by Kometrika company.

Our main task by application programming was to provide for pupils direct and intuitive access to additional content of "units" and also an opportunity to execute and send for check of a task in any place and at any convenient time from the smartphone or the tablet which each school student has for July, 2020 practically. Dmitry Petrov, the CEO of Kometrika company emphasized

For July, 2020 a system implements work more than 15 types of exercise machines and different types of tasks: from the simplest – the choice of the answer from the drop-down list, the choice of the only thing and the multiple response, answer from the table to a chat of group work on a task with the teacher.

The block of tasks on audition where the pupil can write the voice answer is especially interesting and send it for check to the teacher. Thus the main stages of educational process which can be reproduced as remotely, and during the work in a class are implemented.

On the platform of the teacher can create groups and classes with pupils on English, physics, biology and other objects. The platform allows to check automatically standard tasks, releasing up to 30% of time of the teacher. At the same time all information on progress of pupils gathers in evident deshborda in a personal account of the teacher. According to developers, interactive resources will help to reduce time of teachers for check of the same tasks and to increase motivation of school students.

For July, 2020 the project is in the final stage of approbation. This approach to studying of English has experimental character so far. In the near future the technology of augmented reality will be developed also for other school objects. For example, at lessons of history and geography interactive content will allow not only to expand material of textbooks, but also to create intersubject communication, creating a complete picture of the world at school students.