Studying Like Playing in the Metaverse... Gyeongnam Office of Education Conducts Committee Training Using Gather Town

Gyeongsangnam-do Office of Education will conduct a two-day training session from the 4th to the 5th to strengthen capabilities in developing career education materials using the metaverse.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Intern Reporter Lee Seryeong] On the 4th, the Gyeongnam Office of Education conducted a capacity-building training session on developing career education materials using the metaverse for the career education materials development committee.

The two-day training, held until the 5th, aimed to familiarize participants with various functions of the virtual space using the Gather Town platform, enabling them to create career exploration rooms and job exploration rooms and apply them to career education.

With the advancement of information and communication technology and the widespread impact of COVID-19, non-face-to-face meetings and communication have become active, and the metaverse is being utilized not only in industries and finance but also throughout daily life and education.

The metaverse is a compound word of Meta, meaning processing or abstraction, and Universe, meaning the real world. It is a place where social, economic, and cultural activities take place in a virtual space similar to the real world.

Gather Town is a metaverse platform where users can decorate spaces and engage in various activities such as whiteboards, games, and conversations with their avatars, which represent themselves.

The Gyeongnam Office of Education stated that by using the metaverse Gather Town in career education, the curriculum can be structured so that students move their avatars like playing during class time to explore careers on their own.

They also expected effects such as moving away from the traditional worksheet-centered career class method to one where teachers and students, as well as students with other students, collaborate to find learning goals.

The Gyeongnam Office of Education plans to produce career education materials in the form of ‘microlearning,’ which uses short units of content tailored to students’ levels, allowing frequent access and learning anytime and anywhere. They also plan to expand career education training that directly utilizes platforms like iTalkTalk and metaverse platforms in classes.

Hong Jeonghee, Director of Career Education, said, “The training was conducted in an online platform format that quickly reflects social changes, which will serve as an opportunity to promote future-oriented career education material development.”

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