Designing a new approach to augmented reality for early childhood self-learning capability at home.

Augmented reality is a technology that can improve students' learning experience, motivation, and learning achievement. This technology can be used to teach concepts and materials that are abstract and difficult to understand in early childhood. In its application, a good learning process should be centered on the learner. But the challenge must be overcome to design AR media that can be used for independent learning. AR design and features must be easy to use and understand by all students with different technological knowledge backgrounds. In this study, AR learning media was successfully designed with a new, more humanist, and interactive approach to teaching symbols and concepts of numbers 1-20. Each stage of the media design process that has been carried out is described in a structured manner by combining the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) and RAD (Rapid Application Development) methods. We have validated the design of media and materials with three experts each. The validation results obtained are 93.7% for the feasibility of media design and 92.1% for the feasibility of the material. These results prove that AR design by displaying avatar objects as 3D virtual friends can support early childhood to study independently at home with more fun, easy, and exciting learning atmosphere and experience.