Ulsan Office of Education Builds Metaverse for Elementary Classes, Distributes to All Schools... More Active and Engaged Participation Than In-Person

Ulsan Office of Education.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education has established an 'expanded virtual world (Metaverse)' that can be utilized in elementary school classes and distributed it to all elementary schools.

Metaverse is a compound word of meta, meaning virtual or transcendence, and universe, meaning world, referring to a virtual space online.

Over the past two years, as non-face-to-face situations increased due to COVID-19, the metaverse rapidly spread across various sectors of society, and interest in its educational use has also grown.

The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education collaborated with Dosan Elementary School, a research school for improving elementary classroom instruction, to build an elementary school class metaverse during May.

On the 9th, the Office of Education also conducted a metaverse experience and utilization training session for elementary school teachers.

In the non-face-to-face training using Zoom, Dosan Elementary teacher Lee Myung-gil and Taehwa Elementary teacher Kim Deok-woo guided ways to utilize the metaverse in classes.

The elementary school class metaverse consists of a conference room, project class resource room, online-offline integrated class resource room, research school resource room for classroom improvement, 3D photo gallery, metaverse class utilization experience center, lounge, and more.

Any elementary school teacher can access and use it anytime and anywhere.

Lee Myung-gil, a 5th-grade teacher at Dosan Elementary who is using the metaverse in classes, cited the advantages of the metaverse as enabling more active collaboration through communication and sharing in virtual space, and allowing students to participate more actively and proactively in learning by creating their own learning, compared to traditional classroom instruction.

Amid these advantages, metaverse-based education is expected to become an educational platform that can transform students from digital consumers who simply use various digital contents in the 4th Industrial Revolution era into digital producers who develop and create them.

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