Collaborative e-learning framework for creating augmented reality mobile educational activities

Abstract

This work introduces an Augmented Reality based framework for e-learning platforms that allows the creation of collaborative activities for mobile devices. The easy-to-use authoring tool is Web3D based and can be integrated with e-learning platforms as a plug-in resource. The Augmented Reality content can be added to a real scenario visualiser, building a sequence of scenes and events. The students can download any activity with a mobile device and play it in a multiplayer collaborative mode. The presented framework solves the problem of standard integration of Augmented Reality applications in education offering a distributed framework which is e-learning compliant.