The Development and Evaluation of an Educational Game Integrated with Augmented Reality and Virtual Laboratory for Chemistry Experiment Learning

Abstract

Virtual laboratory helps students' learning of experiment manipulation and scientific concepts before they actually enter the real chemistry laboratory. It also helps reduce the risks in conducting the real chemistry experiments and reduce the cost for chemistry experiment materials. This study developed an educational game "O2 LAB©", on the mobile device that combined augmented reality and virtual laboratory. It is's a game-based learning system integrated with augmented reality, anchored instruction, and virtual laboratory. The game includes two stages (the AR exploration stage and the virtual experiment stage). Fifty-two senior high school students participated in this study. The results show that the students improved their learning significantly after the game and the scores in each dimension of flow and acceptance are both high.