Impacts of Augmented Reality in Legal Studies: Students’ Reflections

The use of augmented reality (AR) in education is relatively new particularly for legal studies. Yet, its use and application may benefit students of law schools not only in helping them to be more interactive in the learning process, but also engaging them in a more experiential education whereby students' learning motivation can be improved. Scarcity of past research and literature on the application of AR in legal studies has led to this study to be carried out primarily to bridge the gaps in the existing literature. Based on the above premises, this article focuses on exploring the impacts of AR in the context of legal studies from the perspective of the students. By employing a pure qualitative methodology, this article engaged with a case study method, whereby one of the law schools of a higher learning institution in Malaysia has been chosen. Survey data from the Google Form was exported for the purpose of analysis in the computer-aided qualitative analysis software (CAQDAS) ATLAS.ti version 8.4. In order to make data ready for analysis, codes were built using a purely inductive approach. It was found that the application of AR has had a significant impact on students of law school particularly within the domains of active learning, unique learning and helpfulness for their studies. The implication for the study is better understanding of the impacts of AR in legal studies among law students. Hopefully, the paper would shed light into the body of literature of technological studies, AR and virtual reality, particularly within the context of higher education.