The Effect of Augmented Reality Technology on the Performance of University Students

In this study, which was created with distance education and augmented reality technology, it was aimed to determine the effect on the performance of university students. When the research is examined, it is seen that the quantitative research method is used. The study was carried out in the fall semester of 2021–2022. A total of 422 volunteer university students who continue their achievements in the study participated in the research. In the research, augmented reality, virtual technology and distance education were taught to university students for 5 weeks via online application training. The data collection tool, which was developed by the researchers and organised by experts in the field, was used in the study, simply called ‘Augmented Reality’. The data collection tool was used to collect data of the people who participated in the research and created the research by solving it with the help of virtual programmes. In the analysis of the collected and compiled data, frequency analysis and t-test were used by using the SPSS programme, which is preferred in many studies, and the results were added to the research in the presence of tables. According to the results obtained from the research, it was concluded that university students’ views on distance education and augmented reality were high and there was a difference. © 2022, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning. All Rights Reserved.