Can the Educational Metaverse Enter the Real Classroom? - From the Perspective of Frontline Teachers

Abstract

This article dissects the challenges faced and the integration strategies for embracing the educational metaverse from existing research, preparing for the new educational trend - the educational metaverse - by controlling the target direction, technical direction, teacher training direction, and ethical direction. Starting from the origin, it analyzes the reasons for the entry of the metaverse into the educational field and summarizes the three characteristics of the educational metaverse supported by current technical means. Combining the current situation of classroom teaching and the advantages of the educational metaverse, it analyzes the inevitability of the metaverse entering the classroom. Subsequently, it analyzes the four major challenges of the current stage: the pressure of college entrance examinations, the challenge of technical implementation, the limited ability of teachers, and the digital ethical risks brought by the metaverse. It prescribes the right remedy, giving strategies for integrating the educational metaverse into the classroom from the four directions of reducing the burden of college entrance examinations, technology research, teacher ability development, and rule formulation. It is hoped that in the future, while the metaverse lands in the educational field, it can overcome challenges at various levels and achieve breakthroughs at the target level, technical level, teacher training level, and ethical level to truly realize the entry of the educational metaverse into the classroom.