Metaverse is the Next Frontier in Education! Learning Turns Virtual

The features of the metaverse seem like a perfect fit for the education sector in this online era.

The metaverse has already absorbed fashion brands, event planners, real estate companies, banks, and other institutions. It is now coming to education, slowly and steadily. One of the many use cases of the metaverse could be its role in the future of education.  Around 12% retail market uses metaverse with a US $5.604 Billion annual revenue in 2021. It could transform how lessons are taught and how kids learn. The features of the metaverse seem like a perfect fit for the education sector in this online era.

Experts believe that the metaverse can be the best principle for learning. Metaverse can help students improve their learning journeys by leaps and bounds by providing immersive and interactive experiences. In the Metaverse, a combination of collaboration and communication will play a crucial role in determining what content shall have to be offered in the virtual world to best facilitate learning.

The Metaverse also has a lot of educational potentials. It can create a comfortable digital environment for classes, research, experiments, and projects. All of these activities can happen in real-time, allowing students and instructors to interact in the same virtual space. Students can use virtual reality to go on field trips, such as visiting museums.

Moreover, learning games and other metaverse experiences will have to be more diverse and be culturally inclusive for all. The Metaverse's virtual, collaborative, and task-oriented character will allow students to learn without even realizing it. When learning is enjoyable, it is most effective.

The metaverse has the potential to make the whole world a classroom, with data bites embedded all over the real world.  Thus, the physical campus gets a decent supplement or even replacement in the form of its digital twin.

The metaverse can also make it easier to deliver knowledge to a larger audience by offering lectures given by animated teachers. As a result, educators will have much more time to support each student and offer them personalized guidance while technology does routine tasks for them.

But, metaverse needs to have solid security measures because student data security is a long-time issue that surrounds the digitalization of education. As it is a unified virtual space that extends over various platforms globally, it needs a robust regulatory mechanism to make the space safe for all its users, and to keep itself updated, educational institutions need more investments in hardware and software.

Top 3 educational institutions working on metaverse:

• Kenya-kaist campus: It aims to go beyond online education by creating a metaverse that provides assistance for running classes and creates an immersive learning experience.
• University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine: Teaching AR, VR, and MR to train first-responders to treat trauma patients who have had a stroke, heart attack, or a gunshot wound.
• University of Connecticut's medical center:  The university has teamed up with PrecisionOS, a Canadian medical software company that offers VR training and educational modules in orthopedics.