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CVA/ACFP Newsletter
November-December 2022
IN FOCUS: Metaverse : Revolution or Buzzword?
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CVA's PICK OF THE MONTH
What is the Metaverse and Web3?
Just as the term “cyberspace” connotes a concept of an online, interconnected digital world, separate and distinct from the real world, the Metaverse, too, is a digital construct. However, the Metaverse is a “hybrid” digital paradigm in which digital objects are used to represent real people, personas, places, concepts, and situations.
Source: eLearning Industry
A persistent virtual ( VIRTUAL sense 2) environment that allows access to and interoperability of multiple individual virtual realities
Also : any of the individual virtual environments that make up a metaverse
Metaverses are immersive three-dimensional virtual worlds in which people interact as avatars with each other and with software agents, using the metaphor of the real world but without its physical limitations.
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Metaverse: Internet of Place – A new experience layer. We see the metaverse as an evolution of the internet that enables a user to move beyond browsing to inhabiting and/or participating in a persistent shared experience that spans the spectrum of our real world to the fully virtual and in between.
Web3: Internet of Ownership – A new distributed data layer. While Web3 is an evolving term, we use it to refer to the emerging initiatives that are using technologies such as blockchain and tokenization to build a more distributed data layer into the internet where data can be owned, validated and authenticated by the individuals and items who are represented by the record.
Source: Accenture
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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Definition, roles, and potential research issues of the metaverse in education: An artificial intelligence perspective
The use of the metaverse for educational purposes is seldom discussed. Most educators might be unaware of the features of the metaverse, not to mention the potential applications of this emerging technology. In this position paper, we aim to provide a clear definition of the metaverse.
Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence
Educational applications of metaverse: possibilities and limitations
This review aims to define the 4 types of the metaverse and to explain the potential and limitations of its educational applications.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.
Source: JEEHP - Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions
Is Metaverse in education a blessing or a curse: a combined content and bibliometric analysis
This study conducts a systematic literature review of the Metaverse in education. The findings provide a roadmap of future research directions to be taken into consideration and investigated to enhance the adoption of the Metaverse in education worldwide, as well as to enhance the learning and teaching experiences in the Metaverse.
Source: Smart Learning Environments
How does the Metaverse Revamp the Corporate Training Game?
Discover how the metaverse will affect L&D (Learning and Development) in the future. Learn about technologies that are empowering the Metaverse, as well as the importance and relevance of the metaverse to corporate training.
Source: CommLab India
The metaverse opens the door to accessible work and learning
Adopting new learning and training methods that are technologically enabled, accessible and experiential builds sought-after skillsets for prospective hires and widens the pool for recruiting diverse talent.
Source: CareerWise
Exploring the Role of Education in the Metaverse
What is the role of education in the metaverse? Is this something educators need to pay attention to? You’ve probably heard the term metaverse pop up in conversations this year. And if you’re finding it hard to make sense of the term metaverse, you’re certainly not alone.
Source: ClassTechTips
How EdTech Firms Are Bringing Higher Education To The Metaverse
Remote learning might’ve gotten a bad rap during the pandemic, but education is about to move into the metaverse. And, experts say, it will be better than in-person instruction.
Source: Forbes
The metaverse: Are colleges really light years away from reaching it?
Virtual lectures are nice, but becoming far more interactive over the next 5-10 years should be the goal for higher ed leaders.
Source: University Business
Education Meets the Metaverse: Reimagining the Future of Learning
Flat static pages on the PC and phone will be replaced by a metaverse of digital 3D spaces, where we interact as lifelike avatars. The metaverse is an embodied internet where you’re never alone. Unlike a Zoom call that is scheduled and disappears when you’re done, the metaverse is “always on” and affords social interactions with peers. This transition has profound implications for capability-building and learning.
Source: World Bank
Six benefits that the metaverse offers to colleges and universities
Even though it’s unclear what exactly the metaverse is and whether it even exists, colleges and universities have jumped onto the metaverse bandwagon. They have augmented in-person and remote video learning with features such as gamified interactive virtual worlds, virtual reality and mixed reality.
Source: The Conversation
The metaverse is coming to education: fourteen key talking points
Clues to help understand the effect that the emergence of the metaverse will have on the field of education.
and Analyses and insights on the potential impact of the metaverse on the education sector
Source: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
3 Ways The Metaverse Could Alter Corporate eLearning
Widespread adoption of the metaverse is right on course to forever change how people experience digital learning through eLearning for corporate training.
Source: eLearning Industry
How does the Metaverse Revamp the Corporate Training Game?
Discover how the metaverse will affect L&D (Learning and Development) in the future. Learn about technologies that are empowering the Metaverse, as well as the importance and relevance of the metaverse to corporate training.
Source: CommLab India
Education in the metaversity: A win-win for educators and students
The “metaversity,” as coined by educators, is changing the world our graduates will enter and is already changing our teaching models. Given that higher education’s primary role is to prepare students with the knowledge, skills, and real-world experiences needed to succeed in the workforce and in their lives, we must not only embrace the transformation that is being driven by the metaverse, education must play a leading role.
Source: VentureBeat
All About Metaversities: Virtual Education Just Went Full VR
Online courses are so 2020. These days, higher education is all about the metaversity.
Just What Is a Metaversity? It is a virtual reality (VR) version of an actual university, a digital twin that you can experience in the same way you would experience a brick-and-mortar university, only by putting on a pair of VR goggles instead of going to campus.
Source: Security.org
Is Metaverse in education a blessing or a curse: a combined content and bibliometric analysis
In the metaverse, students and educators may be physically situated far from each other, but they will be together, and accountable, within the same virtual space. Students will truly be able to learn by doing, making lessons more relatable and memorable. These metaverse experiences will make learning more efficient and engaging. They’ll open the door to even more group collaboration and deeper exploration of the broader world than the physical classroom.
Source: Education Technology
Remote Learning, the Metaverse and the Future of Education
Some colleges and universities are using the metaverse to develop immersive environments. Within the virtual world of the metaverse, an instructor could teach an astronomy lesson under a canopy of stars, lead geology students to the heart of a volcano or help medical students explore the inner workings of the human body. The metaverse also makes it possible to meet and collaborate in virtual spaces.
Source: EdTech Digest
Metaverse education: from university to metaversity
We are in for a treat over the years to come! A treat that is enabled by 5G networks, novel metaverse applications and a shift in consumer behavior. However, will we see the same substantial change in education? In this blog post we explore how a 5G-enabled metaverse will power a new universe for learners and teachers alike!
Source: Ericsson
Value creation in the metaverse
With its potential to generate up to $5 trillion in value by 2030, the metaverse is too big for companies to ignore.
How do we navigate a virtual world that is still taking shape?
Source: Mckinsey
Virtual Reality Replaces the Textbook as a Provider Education Tool
Healthcare organizations are using augmented and virtual reality technology to give doctors and nurses better insight on challenging treatments.
Source: Health Leaders
Designing an equitable future for immersive learning
Immersive learning is rapidly demonstrating its power to transform learning and work at every level. VR and augmented reality — together known as extended reality technology — have enormous potential to deliver workplace and career training faster, more cost-effectively and more equitably at scale across a wider range of skills and occupations than ever before.
Source: Chief Learning Officer
The Metaverse and Web 3.0: Embedding Ourselves into the Internet
We are embarking on an online environment transformation that is every bit as revolutionary as the inception of the Web browser in 1992. The Metaverse will supplant the browser for many of our activities. We will immerse ourselves through avatars to engage in commerce, education, and social exchanges. Now is the time to prepare for the transition.
Source: The European Business Review
Meet the Metaverse
Interest in the metaverse is rising after a disruptive pandemic kicked off the rapid-fire deployment of virtual learning around the world.
Source: Education Next
The Metaverse in 2040
Hype? Hope? Hell? Maybe all three. Experts are split about the likely evolution of a truly immersive ‘metaverse.’ They expect that augmented- and mixed-reality enhancements will become more useful in people’s daily lives. Many worry that current online problems may be magnified if Web3 development is led by those who built today’s dominant web platforms.
Source: Pew Research Center
Visions of the Internet in 2035
Asked to ‘imagine a better world online,’ experts hope for a ubiquitous – even immersive – digital environment that promotes fact-based knowledge, offers better defense of individuals’ rights, empowers diverse voices and provides tools for technology breakthroughs and collaborations to solve the world’s wicked problems.
Source: Pew Research Center
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DOCUMENTS
Welcome to the metaverse
What is the metaverse, and why should businesses be paying attention to it? Explore these insights to understand the next evolution of today’s internet—and its potential global value creation opportunity, which could be in the trillions.
Source: McKinsey
All One Needs to Know about Metaverse: A Complete Survey on Technological Singularity, Virtual Ecosystem, and Research Agenda
This survey paper presents the first effort to offer a comprehensive framework that examines the latest metaverse development under the dimensions of state-of-the-art technologies and metaverse ecosystems, and illustrates the possibility of the digital `big bang'. First, technologies are the enablers that drive the transition from the current Internet to the metaverse. We thus examine eight enabling technologies rigorously. In terms of applications, the metaverse ecosystem allows human users to live and play within a self-sustaining, persistent, and shared realm. Therefore, we discuss six user-centric factors. Finally, we propose a concrete research agenda for the development of the metaverse.
Source: Cornell University
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Audio. What is the Metaverse?
What exactly is the Metaverse? And is it really that new?
This talk will explore our emotional connections to cyberspace, our feelings of presence and immediacy in online environments, and what this means for the intensity of our experiences, good and bad. As technology promises ever more immersive, embodied experiences involving 360 degree vision, touch, and even taste, how might this merging of cyber and physical affect our lives?
Source: Gresham College
Video. The Cognitive Human Enterprise: When AI, the Metaverse, and Humanity Collide
How are AI and the metaverse changing marketing, business, and humanity as we know it?
Source: Marketing AI Institute
Video. Living and Learning in the Metaverse
A journey to the trenches of VR development to explore the power of data visualization to turn data into insights in VR: training people to travel through a virtual building on a campus as fast as possible, and exploring anatomical structures in the many organs that make up our body (such as the heart, the lung, and the kidney), and peeking inside them to see cells.
Source: TedX Talks
Journey To The Center Of The Metaverse
Creating an immersive learning program in the metaverse is just one part of a much larger strategic conversation. This needs analysis journey through each layer of the metaverse will help your organization build a strategy that showcases your values, culture, and business.
Source: eLearning Industry
25 Education Metaverse Startups You Must Explore
The Metaverse has the potential to take advantage of technology in the fields of education and learning. It could connect students, educators, and learners from around the world and provide them with the means to interact meaningfully. Another best thing is that the Metaverse has opportunities to leverage technology in education and learning. It could connect students, educators, and learners worldwide and empower them to interact in meaningful ways.
Source: EdTech Review
Make way for the metaverse
The metaverse is morphing—and investments in the space are growing. Are you making the right moves?
Source: McKinsey
Open access journal and courses
Journal of Metaverse
Journal of Metaverse is a double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal that devotes itself to publishing original articles from different disciplines about metaverse.Aiming global circulation, it is international, open access, and free of charge.
Course. What is the Metaverse?
The metaverse isn’t just for gamers or developers, it will be for everyone. In this free course from the experts at Meta, you’ll learn what the metaverse is, what it means for our world today and into the future, and the opportunities it presents for both professionals and businesses.
Source: Coursera
Course. The Metaverse, NFT & Web 3.0 - Evolution of Internet
This course is specially designed to familiarise you with the Metaverse concept and its implications in today’s world.
Source: Alison
Metaverse University (In Spanish only)
Metaverse University ofrece a los estudiantes formarse hacia el Metaverso
Source: HorizonMetaverse
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