Educational applications of metaverse: possibilities and limitations

By Bokyung Kye, Nara Han, Eunji Kim, Yeonjeong Park, Soyoung Jo. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2021

818 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This review aims to define the 4 types of the metaverse and to explain the potential and limitations of its educational applications. The metaverse roadmap categorizes the metaverse into 4 types: augmented reality, lifelogging, mirror world, and virtual reality. An example of the application of augmented reality in medical education would be an augmented reality T-shirt that allows students to examine the inside of the human body as an anatomy lab. Furthermore, a research team in a hospital in Seoul developed a spinal surgery platform that applied augmented reality technology. The potential of the metaverse as a new educational environment is suggested to be as follows: a space for new social communication; a higher degree of freedom to create and share; and the provision of new experiences and high immersion through virtualization. Some of its limitations may be weaker social connections and the possibility of privacy impingement; the commission of various crimes due to the virtual space and anonymity of the metaverse; and maladaptation to the real world for students whose identity has not been established. The metaverse is predicted to change our daily life and economy beyond the realm of games and entertainment. The metaverse has infinite potential as a new social communication space. The following future tasks are suggested for the educational use of the metaverse: first, teachers should carefully analyze how students understand the metaverse; second, teachers should design classes for students to solve problems or perform projects cooperatively and creatively; third, educational metaverse platforms should be developed that prevent misuse of student data.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/16fc43cde352ce38a6f458db215f068733c4c492

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. Xinli Zhang
2. Yuchen Chen
3. Lailin Hu
4. Youmei Wang
5. Dogus Beyoglu
6. D. Burgos
7. M. Abed
8. F. Ahmad

Citations in the corpus

• Is Metaverse in education a blessing or a curse: a combined content and bibliometric analysis (2022, methodology): “AR is described as overlaying virtual objects in the real world to make the object 3D and real (Kye et al., 2021).”
• The metaverse in education: Definition, framework, features, potential applications, challenges, and future research topics (2022, background): “During the COVID-19 pandemic, screen-based remote learning on videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams has become a norm (Almahasees et al., 2021; Kye et al., 2021; Ko et al., 2022).”
• Metaverse for Healthcare: A Survey on Potential Applications, Challenges and Future Directions (2022, neutral): “of healthcare education and training [31].”