How Mixed Reality Helps with Learning In K-12 Classroom

Mixed Reality in Education

Mixed reality is becoming more popular and accessible now, which means it is being used in various settings, including the classroom. This is a positive development for teachers, students, and every stakeholder in the educational ecosystem.

When mixed reality is deployed correctly, it can support and expand the curriculum, enhancing learning outcomes and making them affordable and scalable.

Mixed reality has impressive potential for the K–12 classroom as it lets students explore the working of planets or get deep into the anatomy of an animal.

Because the mixed reality is new, the research about its benefits is still coming out. However, teachers want to ensure that investing in virtual reality will open new doors for their students and not just be another topic worth discussing in the classroom.

Using mixed reality in the classroom

There are two ways mixed reality can be used in the classroom. The first is more traditional, involving computer(s) and other devices with which students explore a virtual environment: this is very close to virtual reality. The second one is the actual mixed reality: a completely immersive experience in which students interact with an environment produced by a mix of natural and virtual worlds, where physical and digital objects live together.

With the help of mixed reality, students can touch and manipulate objects and, gain a greater understanding of each of them, interact with data sets, complex methods, and abstract concepts, which can be challenging to understand through the teacher’s verbal instructions. As a result, mixed reality provides a more engaging, fun, and effective learning experience than other traditional educational methods.

Benefits of mixed reality in education

Mixed reality gives educators innovative possibilities to explore with learners thanks to its immersive features.

• Engaging: Mixed reality is fascinating and captivates the attention of struggling students. It also provides the opportunity to boost all students’ engagement during classroom lectures using immersive touch and feel technologies like 3D.

• Universal: Mixed reality brings all students together, regardless of their social or economic disparities. It also encourages student interaction with each other and teachers.

• Teach all topics: Mixed reality can be used to teach any topic and subject, and there’s no limit to what can be made into an immersive method.

• Bring the faraway world closer: Using MR devices, students and teachers can go back in time or to any place and interact with historic sites, animals, or human beings who no longer exist. This helps students get a new and more realistic image. There’s no limitation with imagination.

Importance of content in mixed reality

With the growth in the mixed reality market and more so after the pandemic, education will likely account for a large percentage of that growth, which means the need for content will grow exponentially.

While mixed reality has tremendous potential to create substantial benefits, businesses and institutions face a few challenges while scaling mixed reality. One key challenge is the lack of high-quality content, and this can lead to the low visual fidelity of the content, improper functionality, lousy user interface, and lousy tracking and recognition, leading to a break in immersion in the mixed reality experiences. However, educators can use mixed reality technology to expose students to interactive and immersive experiences that are not always possible in a traditional classroom. In addition, as mixed reality technology and content offerings expand, more and more students will have the opportunity to learn with mixed reality.

That’s why you need Straive’s expertise in mixed reality content and services. For over 30+ years, Straive has been offering its learning solutions to the world’s leading educational publishers, EdTech firms, universities, academic institutions, and corporates. We blend domain expertise with process excellence, experienced talent, and technology to deliver superior business outcomes. Our services encompass a range of EdTech solutions for – Pre-K through Grade K-12, Higher Education, and corporate customers.