The metaverse in virtual education: towards a teacher training proposal based on immersive environments
Metaverse Basic and Applied Research,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
2, P. 72 - 72
Published: Dec. 30, 2023
The
expansion
of
virtual
education
after
the
pandemic
highlighted
need
to
incorporate
immersive
technologies
into
teaching
and
learning
processes.
In
this
context,
metaverse
was
considered
an
innovative
alternative
with
potential
enrich
practice
in
digital
environments.
Based
on
a
theoretical
review,
role
as
environment
its
applicability
teacher
training
were
examined.
References
such
Vygotsky's
sociocultural
theory
Siemens'
connectivism
analyzed,
highlighting
value
technological
mediation
networks.
Likewise,
gaps
competencies
limitations
pedagogical
use
Latin
American
educational
contexts
identified.
response,
design
proposal
for
teachers
at
Colegio
Nuevo
Ecuador,
aimed
appropriation
metaverse,
raised.
It
concluded
that
integration
requires
specific
intervention
strengthens
teachers'
competencies.
This
action
would
improve
quality
environments
promote
more
innovative,
interactive,
relevant
Language: Английский
Metaverse and education: affective bonds, cognition, and ethics in immersive environments
Metaverse Basic and Applied Research,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
3
Published: Dec. 31, 2024
This
paper
explores
how
metaverses
have
shaped
new
forms
of
social,
emotional,
and
pedagogical
connection
in
immersive
digital
environments.
It
analyzes
the
personalization
avatars
construction
virtual
identities
allowed
users
to
express
subjective
dimensions
that
often
cannot
be
found
physical
spaces.
dynamic
has
fostered
emergence
deeper
relationships
but
also
brought
with
it
ambivalent
effects
such
as
emotional
dissociation
burnout.
examines
role
strategies,
gamification,
accessibility
key
factors
quality
interactions.
The
study
highlights
importance
incorporating
ethical
justice
principles
counter
risks
exclusion,
algorithmic
surveillance,
unequal
access.
Overall,
offers
a
critical
situated
perspective
on
potential
metaverse
generate
safe,
inclusive,
emotionally
meaningful
Intentional
design,
educational
support,
political
commitment
been
identified
necessary
conditions
for
transforming
these
spaces
into
true
scenarios
collective
shared
well-being.
Language: Английский
Glossary of emerging terms in artificial intelligence and metaverses from a sociotechnical and educational perspective
Metaverse Basic and Applied Research,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
3
Published: Dec. 31, 2024
Introduction:The
rapid
development
of
technologies
such
as
artificial
intelligence,
the
metaverse,
and
extended
reality
has
reconfigured
educational,
social,
cultural
environments,
giving
rise
to
new
discourses
practices.
However,
this
progress
also
generated
conceptual
gaps
an
imprecise
use
key
terms,
which
complicates
their
critical
adoption
in
pedagogical
field.Methods:The
study
adopted
a
qualitative
interpretive
approach,
based
on
hermeneutic-critical
paradigm.
Content
analysis
purposive
theoretical
sampling
were
used
select
most
frequently
terms
recent
scientific
literature.
The
data
was
organized
through
open
coding,
grouping
them
into
four
thematic
areas.Results:A
glossary
developed
containing
40
main
areas:
intelligence
education,
metaverse
reality,
sociotechnical
dimension,
educational
innovation.
Each
term
included
technical
definition,
commentary,
applied
example,
thus
promoting
reading
that
connects
techno-pedagogical
discourse
relational
contextual
way.Conclusions:The
proved
be
valuable
epistemological
tool,
useful
both
for
digital
literacy
teacher
training
research.
It
contributed
highlighting
ideological
tensions,
gaps,
social
effects
technologies,
more
reflective
conscious
understanding
ecosystem
education.
Language: Английский