Busan Office of Education Opens Nation's First Metaverse Training Room for Teachers

The first metaverse education room (META BOX) for teachers in the nation will be established in Busan.

The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education Research and Information Center will hold an opening ceremony for the metaverse education room at 2 p.m. on the 10th in the main auditorium of the Education Research and Information Center. The event will be attended by members of the Busan City Education Committee, presidents of elementary and secondary school principals' associations, teachers from pilot classes utilizing the metaverse, and education office officials.

The metaverse education room is differentiated from the existing small-scale experience-centered metaverse spaces and aims to provide integrated metaverse services including education, experience, production, and exhibition. A total project cost of 1.6 billion KRW was invested to establish the entire 9th floor (462,140 pyeong) of the Busan Education Research and Information Center as a specialized metaverse education and experience space.

Busan Office of Education.

The education room consists of six rooms in total: one metaverse XR exhibition space, one AVR content experience space, one 3D production space, one MR content experience space, and two education spaces where educational metaverse content is directly produced. After a five-month pilot operation for teachers' metaverse education and experience, full-scale operation will commence.

Choi Jae-yong, director of the Busan Education Research and Information Center, said, "With the opening of the metaverse education room, we will actively support enhancing teachers' digital capabilities and expertise, and promote the activation of metaverse education with its various advantages in school settings."

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