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The Advent of the Metaversity and the Responsibility of Liberal Arts Education : Focused on Changes in the Educational Environment due to COVID-19 Persistence and the Rise of the Metaverse

  • The Journal of General Education
  • 2022, (18), pp.273~301
  • DOI : 10.24173/jge.2022.01.18.9
  • Publisher : Da Vinci Mirae Institute of General Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education > Field of Education > General Education
  • Received : December 20, 2021
  • Accepted : January 24, 2022
  • Published : January 31, 2022

Jeong, Yeonjae 1

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ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic created a significant challenge for the strength of the education system, resulting in opportunities for new types of education. The experimental attempts in education that have been ongoing are now forming a n ew n ormal. N ormally, education w as c arried o ut according to a predetermined class schedule and sequential curriculum, which was the most common form at universities; but the non-face-to-face environment during the pandemic changed education into an unfamiliar scene instantly. In particular, edutechnology, which is linked to ICT and AI, swiftly developed a simultaneously omnipresent and ubiquitous educational environment, and now it has expanded to the metaverse based on virtual reality. In this regard, the sense of crisis in universities is clearly different from before. In light of such changing times, this article explores the changes in the educational environment due to COVID-19 persistence and the expansion of the metaverse and characterizes metaversity as the ideal forms of universities. Unlike a university, metaversity refers to an ideological form of a future university that overcomes the limitations of a traditional university, which consists of a one-dimensional educational community. The current situation surrounding higher education is based on the contemporaneity of the uncontemporary. Considering the current educational situation, this is due to the prominent phenomenon of the coexistence of heterogeneous factors from other eras. This article attempts introspective and normative approaches to future education rather than technical analysis. First, the meaning of the metaverse phenomenon will be analyzed, and the metaverse’s impact on higher education will be predicted. Furthermore, the most important influence of the metaverse is temporal and spatial changes. Therefore, educational content, educational methodology, and changes in educational space that are necessary for education in the future will be derived, and the responsibility of liberal education, which will be heavier at the educational level, will be reaffirmed. Lastly, the necessity of searching for new types of universities for future will be presented.

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