Digital instruction has transformed many subjects, yet religious education still relies mainly on one‑size‑fits‑all lectures and memorisation. This study introduces and tests a modular platform that fuses an AI personalisation engine with culturally sensitive AR to give secondary‑level learners an adaptive and immersive route into sacred narratives. A prototype was built with Unity 3D for AR for learner modelling, recommendation, and natural‑language understanding. Twenty students aged 14–17 explored an AI‑tailored, AR‑rendered unit on the story of Abraham; usability, engagement, and knowledge gain were recorded, alongside interviews for qualitative insight. The system scored a mean of 82.5, and users spent an average of 12.3 min interacting with optional AR content, with 91% completing all enrichment nodes. Comprehension rose from 58.2% to 84.6%. Interviews revealed that spatial context and just‑in‑time difficulty adjustment made learners feel “present in the story” and “understood by the app.” These outcomes suggest that pairing adaptive AI with embodied AR can lift both engagement and knowledge in religious studies without compromising doctrinal nuance. Wider deployment will require larger, diverse cohorts, cross‑faith content libraries, and continued attention to privacy, bias, and iconographic guidelines, but the pilot offers clear evidence that intelligent, immersive technologies can renew the pedagogy of faith traditions.

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Intelligent and Immersive Religious Education: AI and Augmented Reality Integration for Personalized Learning

  • Christos Papakostas

摘要

Digital instruction has transformed many subjects, yet religious education still relies mainly on one‑size‑fits‑all lectures and memorisation. This study introduces and tests a modular platform that fuses an AI personalisation engine with culturally sensitive AR to give secondary‑level learners an adaptive and immersive route into sacred narratives. A prototype was built with Unity 3D for AR for learner modelling, recommendation, and natural‑language understanding. Twenty students aged 14–17 explored an AI‑tailored, AR‑rendered unit on the story of Abraham; usability, engagement, and knowledge gain were recorded, alongside interviews for qualitative insight. The system scored a mean of 82.5, and users spent an average of 12.3 min interacting with optional AR content, with 91% completing all enrichment nodes. Comprehension rose from 58.2% to 84.6%. Interviews revealed that spatial context and just‑in‑time difficulty adjustment made learners feel “present in the story” and “understood by the app.” These outcomes suggest that pairing adaptive AI with embodied AR can lift both engagement and knowledge in religious studies without compromising doctrinal nuance. Wider deployment will require larger, diverse cohorts, cross‑faith content libraries, and continued attention to privacy, bias, and iconographic guidelines, but the pilot offers clear evidence that intelligent, immersive technologies can renew the pedagogy of faith traditions.