UniteAR
- UniteAR Kiosk is an augmented reality based experiential learning kit that includes a tablet with offline access. The global pandemic disrupted everything including our conventional classroom-based education.
- Students possess more than average digital literacy than most of the educators or learning providers acquired. They need a high-level interactive system where they play with knowledge or information.
- The conventional direct class-room sessions may not work out with the post-COVID-19 world. Space or physical infrastructure is no more relevant. All that matters is the presentation of ideas or concepts which can make the students involved and interact. In this way, no other technologies work better than augmented reality.
- The solution will let the learner scan prescribed textbooks and get access to videos and other materials that help explain the content they are trying to learn. UniteAR Kiosk uses advanced computer vision technology to enable image recognition.
India is one of the largest “connected” counties in the world with 55.3% of internet users, hilly areas, and other remote locations are still a challenge for the service provider to connect. As per recent reports, more than 40% of students did not have access to digital learning devices due to lack of internet access, and financial constraints. UniteAR is trying to provide access to AR-based experiential learning to students living in remote areas of India by working with NGOs, state, and local governments. In this post-pandemic age, students from cities,and urban areas will be able to access online classes and digitized formal education. In rural India students with a lack of experiential learning will be falling behind as they compete with others This gap will always create educational inequality in society due to the lack of financial stability for a large number of the population in the nation.
The plan is to provide subsidized tablets, or mobile devices to students with the UniteAR software installed
UniteAR Kiosk is an award winning AR platform specifically designed to enable experiential learning to students living in remote areas with low to no internet access using a tablet, recycled smartphone or their own mobile device. The presentation of ideas or concepts is enhanced with the platform. The solution will let the learner scan prescribed textbooks and get access to videos and other materials that help explain the content they are trying to learn. According to various studies, 90% of the students can focus on a topic for only 10 to 15 minutes. The solution will replace the traditional approach of teaching by introducing innovative illustrations of concepts. In an AR classroom, the students can scan certain elements from a book and receive a text, video, audio or any other useful information. For instance, some historical information about certain events or places, fun facts, visual 3D models would help students in attaining a wider perspective of topics. This makes every abstract content easier to understand. UniteAR Kiosk uses advanced computer vision technology to enable image recognition. Computer vision technology can integrate both spatial and temporal attention, and that helps to process and analyze information faster.
The students in remote villages of India are facing severe difficulties while the world widely adopts a digital-based education system. More than 70% of rural India does not have internet access. Most of the people living in those areas are from socially and economically backward communities. They cannot easily relocate to urban or semi-urban areas due to various reasons including their financial stability, social and cultural differences, and geographical adaptation issues. The children of these underprivileged parents are depending only on the free education provided by state governments. The pandemic changed the way the education system works, and classrooms are relocated to google meet or zoom. The students from rural areas are not able to access those platforms due to the lack of internet connectivity. Even if the situation may not continue for a long time, lack of digital literacy is going to affect these children's life and career a lot. UniteAR Kiosk can reach them through partnerships with state government, NGOs and other ed-tech companies. Our product can help them to learn their subjects as per the curriculum without internet access. Experiential learning can enable them to learn concepts without conventional teaching, and they can attain good scores as well.
The advancements of AR in many sectors, augmented reality learning assures new tools to the students to visualize subjects, complex concepts and enable them to acquire the practical skills. The goal is to deliver the wealth of learning resources to offline communities across India.
- Enable access to quality learning experiences in low-connectivity settings—including imaginative play, collaborative projects, and hands-on experiments.
During the pandemic the teaching through video conferencing tools is quite a drastic shift. The current students who are born after 2000 have been exposed to a more enriched and media-saturated world, even if there is no internet, other sources like television channels changed the way they process information. These students cannot excel academically with the older teaching methodologies .The challenge faced is the difficulty in learning from online classrooms by keeping them focused and attentive. This applies to students with and without internet access. They believe in things that they can experience, at least virtually. UniteAR Kiosk can resolve all these challenges with experiential learning.
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More 40000 Educators and students from 170 countries across the globe are already using UniteAR.
UniteAR works business to business to model, and it's a SaaS platform, organizations can directly subscribe solutions online in monthly or yearly plans.
More than 100 top institutions across the globe are leveraging the potential of AR with UniteAR.
We would like to reach out to the underprivileged students from remote areas across the globe with our solution.
We believe that AR enabled learning system can create an impact and remove all the inequalities in the current educational systems.