Metaverse Education Paradigm: A Disruptive Innovation Leading to Sustainable Education
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Technology Enhanced Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: learning strategies; sustainable education
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Dear Colleagues:
Metaverse technology is the innovation that will significantly change education in the coming decades by enabling immersive teaching and learning experiences in both virtual and conventional class environments. Metaverse is the next disruptive technology, an online 3D universe that will provide an opening for disruptive education to allow students to seamlessly navigate between different virtual spaces.
The metaverse learning environment will allow students to learn, interact, work, and socialize in these 3D spaces through avatars. Specifically, students can explore immersive environments for learning such as 3D Simulations, virtual campus activities, and virtual classrooms with avatar lecturers; take part in field trips, internships, and groupwork in metaverse; conduct experiments that are dangerous in real life; undertake language learning immersion; and socialize with peers. Although still conceptual and experimental, metaverse is expected to revolutionize education through disruption that is likely to result in more sustainable education.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews that enrich and expand the scope of Sustainable Education through digitisation, which is, in our case, the the metaverse learning environment, are welcome.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Metaverse learning environment;
- Sustainable education;
- Immersive learning experiences;
- Educational inclusion through metaverse;
- Collaborative learning through metaverse;
- Metaverse learning strategies and pedagogy;
- Virtual classes;
- 3D simulation learning;
- Gamification;
- Virtual campus activities;
- AR/VR/MR technologies in education;
- Digital transformation through metaverse;
- Deep learning;
- Virtual language learning;
- Virtual exchange (VE);
- Virtual interaction in language teaching.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Leonidas Efthymiou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metaverse learning
- metaverse learning environment
- 3D learning
- disruptive education
- sustainable education
- gamification
- simulations
- educational inclusion
- collaborative learning
- learning strategies and pedagogies
- digital transformation
- deep learning
- AR/VR/MR technologies
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