Blended learning and augmented reality: experiences of educational design

Nowadays, Distance learning goes through the redefinition of concepts, among other reasons by the rise that the so-called emerging technologies are acquiring, thus expanding the technologies with which the students can interact and the experiences that can be provided. The traditional and current format blended learning which dominates the university education generally formed by a combination of non-presence, flexibility and easy access, is demanding a new view and form of usage. Together with it, the Augmented Reality, catalogued by the Horizon Report as a technology which must be present in the educational system about the year 2020, is presented as a resource which can improve the previous one, given the closeness between the content and the context reality presented, thanks to its possibility of being used at a distance. In this article an analysis of both concepts is carried out, as well as the possibility of overlapping the second within the first one is presented. In order to verify an example of the combination of both, we present the work carried out from the RAFODIUM project, in the Pedagogy and Medical Degrees at the University of Seville, by means of the description of objects created by Augmented Reality and of the enriched notes which can be consulted through the learning management platform that the mentioned university uses. The article is concluded by highlighting that the on-line training demands attractive and motivating formative actions connected with the reality, an aspect that the Augmented Reality offers.