Metaverse Awareness and Generation to Transform Education

Abstract

With each passing second, the huge information flow of social media has transformed many habits and behaviors of people. The effects of social media have been discussed in the field of education as in every field, and it has been stated in studies that it increases motivation when used in education. Nowadays, with the change of Facebook’s name into “Meta”, discussions of Metaverse as a Web 3.0 technology have started. Understanding the concept of Metaverse, which means Virtual Universe, is important for educators to understand the subject and design new instructional models. In this study, it is aimed to examine the transformation of education with the metaverse awareness and metaverse generation. The literature was scanned with the document analysis technique and the subject was discussed with the titles of “The Concept of Metaverse”, “Metaverse and Education”, “Metaverse Awareness” and “Transformation of Education with the Metaverse Generation”. As a result, in an educational environment without huge campuses or buildings, it is expected that the education of the metaverse generation will take a completely different turn with the haptic clothes that will provide the feeling of touch in the virtual metaverse world. In this direction, it is important that the Metaverse awareness is formed correctly in these days, which are preparing the ground for transformation in education.