D6.7 Report on recruitment, training and methodology for Pilot 4

This report addresses ARETE Pilot 4 deployment plan and its implementation steps. Pilot 4 aims to accelerate the uptake of AR in education by providing an authoring tool and learning management system to teachers: it also seeks to evaluate the state of development of the authoring tool and assess how it helps teachers in designing learning activities.

Pilot 4 recruitment of teachers took place in May and June 2022 (M31 and M32); teachers’ onboarding and training as well as the pre-experience data collection were carried out between June and July 2022 (M32 and M33). Pilot 4 deployment with teachers' usage of the Mirage XR toolkit took place in July and August 2022 (M33 and M34); post-experience surveys and post-experience interviews were carried out between August and September 2022 (M34 and 35). Pilot 4 analysis of the results will be conducted from October onwards.

In line with the ethical guidelines established by the External Ethics Advisory Board, prior to their selection teachers were informed about the goal and scope of Pilot 4 via an information sheet (see Annex 1). In addition, participants' were required to sign an ad-hoc consent form (see Annex 1) to be allowed to take part in the study.

Pilot 4 data collected via the pre-experience and post-experience surveys, as well as the interviews only included general demographic information. Hence, they do not allow for participants’ identification: in fact, participants did not receive an ID which would allow for tracking participants' responses. Detailed information on ARETE Pilot 4 data flow and storage is included in Annex 2 (data flow diagram) as well as Annex 3 (Record of Processing Activities).