Building a Smart Education Ecosystem from a Metaverse Perspective

Abstract

Metaverse is the future of the Internet and integrates a variety of information technologies. It leads future education trends and brings profound changes to education. On the basis of analysis of the development trend of smart education and the connotation and action mechanism of edu-metaverse in the view of metaverse, this paper structures the smart education ecosystem, builds the scenario and modular smart learning space of three education scenarios of resource collaborative interaction, virtuality-reality integration experience, and ubiquitous spatial inquiry by using the six core technologies, and forms the new education mode of virtuality-reality symbiosis, trans-spatial fusion, and collaborative inquiry. Then, it verifies the application effect by AHP. Finally, it creates the smart education ecosystem of “four ecology integration”—resource ecology, interaction ecology, space ecology, and collaboration ecology, which accelerates the organic integration of metaverse and smart education and provides theoretical basis and reference for the new application of future education.

A systematic review on the metaverse-based blended English learning

“…Moreover, previous studies reveal that instructors and learners should be a good grip on the entire scheme of information handling and audiovisual equipment (Diamantidis and Chatzoglou, 2018). In particular, English instructors and learners should be familiar with digital pedagogical tools to meet the needs of English courses in terms of digital literacy (Zhou, 2022). For English instructors and learners, it is an important ability to acquire knowledge and language skills in metaverse-based blended learning.…”

“…The high degree of freedom of the metaverse has appeared to be some challenges in applying language education (Yang, 1998;Reiners et al, 2018;Thorne and Macgregor, 2018;Dayoub, 2022;Zhou, 2022). Challenges may include gamification, social distancing, and internet availability.…”

“…It supports virtual social connection even in the real world, which may lead to social distancing or social alienation (Fola-Adebayo, 2019). Therefore, the metaverse may weaken social interactions (Zhou, 2022). In the field of English education, users may transmit the wrong information, "me I want to show" instead of "me as I am, " so that the instructor and administrators cannot predict the actual intercultural communication competencies and language skills in the virtual worlds (Puncreobutr et al, 2022).…”

“…The metaverse technologies have foregrounded deficient education support (Puncreobutr et al, 2022). The metaversebased education heavily depends on the economic status of universities (Zhou, 2022). Policymakers and administrators may estimate the improvement of the education reform and learner educational benefits on all files (Poddubnayaa et al, 2020).…”

“…Undoubtedly, it is still in its infancy using metaverse-based blended learning (Yu, 2016). Concerns with the economy, culture, politics and even personal information security caused by the metaverse technology can be solved properly (Zhou, 2022). Furthermore, developers and designers of the metaverse platforms could design easier and more convenient tools which can directly or indirectly stimulate language instructors' and learners' readiness in the teachinglearning process (Puncreobutr et al, 2022).…”