QR CODES IN EDUCATION - SUCCESS OR FAILURE?

We are nowadays used to access tens of links to get the information or to ask for information. Most of the times, during a talk, we bring in the discussion webpage (link) where we can access a document, a tutorial, etc. In college, we truly assault students numerous times with tens of online pages, information useful to them and which they should access. On a webpage, a link can be clicked to visit another website, to send a message, to view a picture or to download a movie. But, in the classroom, these links are very difficult to give to them since, most of the times, they are very long and complex strings of character combinations. In order to facilitate the access to information, to access an internet address more easily and not only, the QR code were created. Thanks to the new technologies, anyone carrying a smartphone, iPod, or tablet device can scan the square barcode. The QR codes are more and more popular thanks to their capacity of fast reading and holding vast amounts of information. Are the QR codes just as popular in training/education, as well? In the first part of the paper, we present the results of studies on the extent to which the UPB professors use these codes in their daily activities and in the didactic activity. The second part of the paper shows alternatives of integrating these codes in the didactic activity. Keywords: quick response code - QR, education, mLearning, eLearning, Augmentated Reality - AR