LearnSphere

"Revolutionizing Education with Immersive Content"

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Inspiration

Indian education system is seriously deprecated. Same syllabuses without any changes, being carried on for more then 20-30 years, is a serious cause of concern for our budding youth. Mugging up and having no practical or skill-based approach to education has resulted in an unskilled workforce which India struggles with today.

For a very long time, our medium of consuming educational content has been texts, videos or audios. But it’s 2023 where internet is cheaper than food and immersive like never before, we are solving this by creating a platform of a new horizon of knowledge verse, LearnSphere. 80% of students had a better learning experience through games which also helped them to learn faster. Normal school classes are monotonous due to which a student fails to visualize different concepts, especially science, and eventually loses interest in learning.

What it does

LearnSphere is a android application platform for teachers, students, and educational institutions which enables sharing of AR study modules like AR chemistry to understand complex concepts, problems etc., and many more. It features Gamified quizzes where teachers can design quizzes and students can play and compete with other peers. LearnSphere is a full-fledged platform where teachers will be able to deliver personalized content and track student performance. The success of the Metaverse is not really about the technology, but about how many people adopt the idea of virtual experiences and participate in Metaverse concepts. Thereby we introduce these concepts through gamification and AR Visuals, and to maintain the spirit of competition, we built a reward system with SphereCoins. In the 3D Metaverse, students will experience the culture, history, and geography of a place while trying to solve a mathematical problem, for instance. The environment will be constantly updated with user-generated worlds that interconnect and provide students with enhanced platforms for deriving deeper meaning and problem-solving like never before.

How we built it

We built the Android app natively using Java and Kotlin and used dependencies like Dexter, PR Downloader, Glide, Firebase, etc, while we used Unity for making AR and VR modules with dependencies like Vuforia, AR Foundation, Google VR SDK for making the VR modules. Our backend stack consisted of Firebase, NodeJS, and Storage Spaces from DigitalOcean.

Challenges we ran into

AR technology can be complex and difficult to integrate into an app, especially in a 36-hour hackathon where time is limited. Ensuring that the AR experience is engaging and intuitive for students and that the teacher monitoring features are user-friendly can be challenging. Moreover, the app runs smoothly on a range of devices, and the AR experience optimized for different devices and cameras can be challenging. Testing the app thoroughly and debugging any issues that arise in a limited time frame was the harsh part. Dealing with deprecated dependencies of Android was also really cumbersome

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating a complete LMS from scratch in android with authentication and the Firebase Collections were really fun. Building AR models from scratch using unity, we were able to build what we expected from ourselves in the given time frame. We have implemented certain modules for the teachers and the learners for giving an immersive experience to both of them.

What we learned

We learned how to effectively work in a team also managing the time constraint and facing all the errors that came our way. We came across a lot of information about the education system while exploring teaching methodologies. Moreover, we got to understand that patience is the key to achieving anything.

What's next for LearnSphere

There is a lot of scope for enhancement in our app. One big feature that we aim to introduce is an AR Playground in which AR modules of educational content can be provided which can be used by the teachers according to the topic they want to teach, this would enable anyone to create useful AR content for themselves and their students thus a birth of a community.

Peerlist Project links (all team members): Ayush Dubey: https://peerlist.io/ayushdubey/project/learnsphere Ambuj Kulsheshthra: https://peerlist.io/ambuj1211/project/learnsphere Anjuman Hasan: https://peerlist.io/anjuman/project/learnsphere Shivangi Tripathi: https://peerlist.io/shivangi2213b/project/learnsphere

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