Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) in Distance Learning: Present and Future

Covid-19 pandemic affects our life suddenly and dramatically. The most affected area was our teaching methods. Students and teachers move to distance learning without good experience and background especially for non-IT teachers. In this paper, we will discuss the opportunity to enhance distance learning and how to make it more effective, easier, and more enjoyable by activating Augmented Reality (AR) in the education field. Recently, AR has been used in various contexts to enhance our experience in mobile and wearable devices. This paper discusses the use of AR in the field of education where it has been observed that learning results have been improved. This type of application required specialized teams of software to create and maintain it and we will explain the benefits and limitations of using AR in distance learning. Using AR in education will provide powerful paradigms for the next generation advanced learning system.