Learning hit a bump in the education road as it attempted to adapt traditional and proven in-person schooling to remote environments during a worldwide pandemic. The metaverse–though far in the future–offers an interesting option for teaching without touching. It burst into the headlines when Facebook changed its name to Meta–arguably, a foreshadow to their future endeavors. If you’re a Star Trek fan, you know ‘metaverse’ as the Voyager’s holodeck.
Here is Go Student’s discussion on metaverse’s future in education:
How Does Metaverse Have a Place in Education
We’ve already had a small taste of how education’s form is changing thanks to Covid-19 and what seems like a lifetime of online classes. So, it comes as no surprise that online learning and the metaverse are being discussed in the same conversations.
Immersive learning experiences are certainly seen as the new way forward.
Ask a Tech Teacher has several articles that address other virtual learning topics that might interest you:
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
Wow. The Metaverse sounds amazing. Time Travel or instant travel over distance will soon be a reality. Life will never be the same again. We have always been told that the one thing we know for sure is that things will change. Boy, will they change!
It is scary I think. What is reality if not what we see in front of us!
Such a good information. Metaverse is amazing technology. With the help of this technology students learning can be very much easy.
I read about it being the answer to remote learning–that students could virtually enter a classroom that duplicated their real one. Like the Star Trek holodeck. Granted, we are a distance from that, but it is now on the timeline.