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Augmented Reality in Education: An Overview of Twenty-Five Years of Research

Cecilia Avila-Garzon 1 , Jorge Bacca-Acosta 1 * , ​ Kinshuk 2 , Joan Duarte 1, Juan Betancourt 1
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1 Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Faculty of Mathematics and Engineering, Bogotá, Colombia2 University of North Texas, College of Information, Denton, USA* Corresponding Author
Contemporary Educational Technology, 13(3), July 2021, ep302, https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/10865
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Research on augmented reality (AR) in education is gaining momentum worldwide. This field has been actively growing over the past decades in terms of the research and development of new technologies. Reviews in the field of AR in education consist of systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses (around 45), surveys (around 33), and only one bibliometric analysis. However, these reviews do not provide a general synthesis of the research published in the field to depict its evolution over the years. This study used the metadata of articles from a 25-year period (1995-2020) to conduct a bibliometric analysis. A total of 3,475 studies were considered. In this study, we used tools such as the Scopus database, the bibliometrix R package, and the VOSviewer analysis tool. The analysis of the literature is based on the metadata, author, content, and citation information extracted from the dataset. In addition, we focus on comparing literature published mainly in journals (articles, articles in press, and reviews) and those published in other sources (conference papers, books, and book chapters). Practitioners could use the results of this study to make decisions about the adoption of AR technologies in education.
Keywords: augmented reality, education, learning, bibliometric, trends

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Avila-Garzon, C., Bacca-Acosta, J., Kinshuk, ​., Duarte, J., & Betancourt, J. (2021). Augmented Reality in Education: An Overview of Twenty-Five Years of Research. Contemporary Educational Technology, 13(3), ep302. https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/10865

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