Metaverse is a trending word, buzzed all over social media these days. From buying lands to playing games, the metaverse is everywhere. But do you know what metaverse is? – In easy words, the metaverse is the virtual version of everything you can do in real life. It’s a virtual world that allows various platforms of different genres to run within it.
EdTech being on the top of the teaching-learning scene, the question remains how is metaverse going to make education better? – To answer this question, you must first know the loopholes of current educational technologies and how metaverse is going to fix and improve them.
How Metaverse Empower Education?
According to the top educators and experts, the metaverse is going to have a significant impact on current education. The current technology has transformed and improved education by eliminating learning challenges like remote education, distant education, etc. The metaverse is not meant to solve any education-based challenges, but to bring a revolutionary change to the teaching-learning process.
The metaverse can be introduced to students through textbooks or by creating their avatars in the metaverse. The Avatars further help students to learn topics through exploring the metaverse. It gives students access to the entire world.
The education-based metaverse is already called ‘Eduverse’ by many experts.
Metaverse as an educational platform
Every school and education system going to use metaverse in different ways. The platform which metaverse provides enhances e-learning. Many hybrid learning setups have been built over meta-platform. For now, the platform provides an exclusive personalized experience as implemented in a few schools.
Students use STEMuli metaverse, an exclusive learning management system within the virtual environment of the metaverse.
Teachers design gaming-style assignments for the students using virtual avatars. On completing the assignments, they are awarded online currency.
Physical tools like VR headsets play a major role in entering the metaverse. Every student has to be provided with a meta-set-up, for transforming the Eduverse.
Conclusion
EdTech has contributed a lot to the education system. Metaverse, being a very new concept, could be a revolutionary change in the field of education. The meta-platform is going to play an important role in developing the Eduverse environment. However, staying online all the time is not good for health, so do spend time reading books in the real world.
