In addition to technologies for standard features, you can implement advanced tools when you build an educational app for your business. They will allow you to create features to expand and deepen the learning experience.

Augmented Reality

Augmented reality takes the learning experience to a whole new level by allowing standard learning content to be augmented with augmented reality models and images. For example, it can be 3D models of ancient ruins or a model of a human skeleton. For example, you can implement the integration of EON Creator AVR – a tool for creating your own AR content that will allow teachers to significantly diversify the presentation of educational material. The most popular technologies for implementing custom AR features are ARCore and ARKit.

Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is a new branch of the development of technologies that are already actively used in teaching. VR allows you to immerse the user right in the center of the action and provide an experience of interacting with the learning object. One of the great examples of using VR for educational purposes is Unimersiv, an application that combines various VR experiences where the user can walk through Acropolis, Ancient Rome to study anatomy, and much more. Popular tools for developing VR features are Google VR NDK and VR SDK (for Android and iOS, respectively).

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is a powerful feature for creating a personalized learning experience. Using machine learning algorithms, an application can adjust the pace and complexity of learning to the student’s personal abilities.

The most famous example of artificial intelligence in educational apps is Duolingo, already mentioned in this article. This application has AI-fueled chatbots with which the user can have conversations in foreign languages. The main task of such chatbots is to imitate communication with a live native speaker, thereby developing the user’s communication skills in a foreign language.

If you want to implement something like this in your educational application, you should use Motion.ai – one of the most popular tools for implementing AI-powered chatbots.

Gamification

Gamification plays an important role in increasing the engagement of educating as learning through play is something we all have experienced. Gamification of learning apps can include the following elements:

• Badges. They serve as a collectible item that reflects the user’s achievements and their learning progress. A kind of medal for the efforts of the user.
• Levels. This element of gamification carries with it an incentive role, since with each level, the challenge of learning increases, and with it the interest in learning.
• Points. The most basic form of reward for the user’s efforts is because we all want to be the best at everything. This is great for encouraging more thoughtful learning in order to get as many points as possible.
• Leaderboards. Another element of motivation is comparing the user’s success with other users. Again, we all want to be winners, and the leaderboard plays on that feeling very well.
• In-game currency. Another form of reward that allows the user to buy different virtual items from within the app. It can be all sorts of icons, customization of the appearance, and so on.

A good example of gamification is the Khan Academy platform. In addition to the standard leaderboards, medals and progress points, this application has a feature called Skill Tree. It visualizes the learning subject in the form of a branching tree so that the user can see the direction of learning and his progress in mastering the “skill”.