Mobile Based Augmented Reality to Improve Learning of Volcanology for High School Students

Augmented Reality (AR) has become popularly used in various fields nowadays. One of the areas that utilized this recent technology is education. This paper presents a study on the use of Augmented Reality to improve students' performance in learning a complicated subject. In this paper, a proposed application was created as a tool for teaching and learning volcanology as part of Geography subject where many students showed weak performance in it. An experimental study and user-based testing were performed to see whether the proposed AR application could really benefit the teaching and learning toward increasing students' understanding of the subject. Pre-test and post-test were conducted and the results are encouraging. The tests' results revealed that the proposed mobile-based AR application is more proficient in improving students' performance than the traditional method.