The Development and Evaluation of an Educational Board Game with Augmented Reality Integrating Contextual Clues as Multi-Level Scaffolding for Learning Ecosystem Concepts

The study developed an AR board game - Ecological Restoration, which employed AR as multi-level cognitive scaffoldings for learning ecosystem concepts. The advantage of this “hybrid” approach is it introduced the flexibility and adaptability to educational board games, which its learning content is generally fixed in printed cards. The game was implemented in a biology class for evaluation. Results show that students generally perceived the game as useful and ease of use for learning. Students' understanding of ecosystem concepts were also significantly improved. Implications of these findings are discussed.