QR Codes in Education : A Review

Authors

  • Anita Sondhi  Research Scholar, Department of Education, Kalinga University, Chhattisgarh, India
  • Dr. Ravindra Kumar  Professor, Department of Education, Kalinga University, Chhattisgarh, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRST229118

Keywords:

Mobile learning, QR Code, Communication, Distance education

Abstract

Mechanical advances carried utilizations of developments to schooling. Ordinary schooling progressively prospers with new advancements joined by more student dynamic conditions. In this continuum, there are students favoring self-learning. Customary learning materials yield alluring, spurring and innovatively improved learning materials. The QR (Quick Response) Codes are one of these advancements. The point of this review is to overhaul an illustration unit upheld with QR Codes and to get the student sees about the upgraded material. For this reason, the overhauled example unit was conveyed to 15 students in Balıkesir University in the scholastic year of 2013-2014. The students were approached to concentrate on the material. The students who had advanced mobile phones and Internet access were picked for the review. To give sectional variety, three gatherings were made. The gathering students were from Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science and Literature and Faculty of Engineering. Later the semi-organized meetings were held, the students were gotten some information about their pre-information about QR Codes, QR Codes' commitment to learning, hardships with utilizing QR Codes about and configuration issues. Spellbinding information examination was utilized in the review. The discoveries were deciphered based on Theory of Diffusion of Innovations and Theory of Uses and Gratifications. Later the exploration, the subjects found were attention to QR Code, kinds of QR Codes and applications, commitments to learning, and expansion of QR Codes. By and large, the students taking part in the review detailed that they knew about QR Codes; that they could utilize the QR Codes; and that involving QR Codes in schooling was valuable. They likewise communicated that such elements as visual components, allure and direct steering emphatically affected learning. What's more, they for the most part referenced that they didn't have any trouble utilizing QR Codes; that they enjoyed the plan; and that the substance ought to incorporate both shallow and inside and out data.

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Anita Sondhi, Dr. Ravindra Kumar "QR Codes in Education : A Review" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 9, Issue 1, pp.193-205, January-February-2022. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRST229118