An Augmented Reality Teaching Platform for Physical and Interactive Remote Learning

COVID-19疫情已经并将继续对学校、学院及大学等学术及教育机构造成重大影响。现有的学生不得不继续在线学习，新生的入学可能会受到重大影响，至少在即将到来的学年。对于大学来说，这是学生学费收入的重要组成部分。虽然有些教学已经转移到远程，但还有许多教育和教学领域依赖于物理设备、实验室或教学空间，无法在网上复制。本项目将开发一个平台，通过使用增强现实（AR）和虚拟现实硬件，在这些领域可以远程进行教学。具体来说，我们将：* 实现一个允许在AR和VR设备上管理远程学习会话的系统。专注于因COVID-19大流行期间转向远程学习而受到影响的特定教学领域。*在我们选择的教学领域内开发一个概念验证教程，代表短期课程的一部分。与学术机构合作，在2020/2021学年内部署这些概念验证场景。

The COVID-19 pandemic has had and continues to have a considerable impact on academic and educational organisations such as schools, colleges and universities. Existing students are having to continue their studies online, and the admissions for new students are likely to be significantly affected, at least for the upcoming academic year. In the case of universities, this represents a significant portion of their student fees income.While some teaching has moved remotely, there are many areas of education and teaching that rely on physical equipment, laboratories or teaching spaces that cannot be replicated online.This project will develop a platform on which teaching in these areas can be performed remotely through the use of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality hardware. Specifically, we will:* Implement a system that allows the management of remote learning sessions on AR and VR devices.* Focus on a particular area of teaching that has been impacted as a result of the move to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.* Develop a proof-of-concept tutorial session, representing part of a short course, within our chosen teaching area.* Work with academic institutions to deploy these proof of concept scenarios within the 2020/2021 academic year.