QR Codes: Best Uses Education

Link learners to supplemental materials: 

• Link handouts, books to online resources
• Orient new students to a campus with links
• Introduce students to a course or lab and link with safety info, policies
• Link artwork to information about it
• Link buildings to information about architecture, navigation, history
• To complement fieldwork with online informatio
• Link nutritional objects to calorie counters (and other health applications)
• Link to online how-to-manuals (e.g., to link a glucose meter for diabetics to information on how to use it)
• Complement presentations with online information

• Quiz questions

• Scenario questions

• Surveys

• Discussion Forums

• Videos

• Linking physical objects to online resources means that you can connect learners to:

  • Audio (including multiple language formats)
  • Video (for example, those how-to-manuals can be how-to-videos instead)
  • Instructors/mentors available for live-chatting