A Preview of Augmented Reality as Pioneering Method in Education

In Today's fast paced world, constant changes occur in everything around us especially technologies and this triggers the education sector to embrace the advancements. One such major distinctive approach is 3D Augmented Reality (AR). AR strengthens & supplements what can be seen, heard, smelled and sensed and allows the users to interact with the real & virtual worlds simultaneously. This paper reviews on how AR has been used in various genres in the field of education. Also, the benefits, the barriers faced and tests results over how effective is AR in acquiring knowledge is discussed. Amongst the varied published papers, the documents picked in this survey are from prominent journals, special issue articles and conferences that have implied `Marker based augmented reality'. The paper will give an overview about the prevalent methodology used in developing the AR based applications. Adding to the aforesaid data, the paper also gives information on, how in pandemic situation, AR has brought a new dimension to online classes and has become the head-turner.