Metaverse for Education: The Connection between the Metaverse with The Real World of Learning to Create Immersive Learning

Abstract

Due to technology that keeps rapidly changing and advancing everyday where access becomes quickly and easily, it causes a disruption.  Digital technology and the Internet help people in a new lifestyle, a new way of working, and a new career. Whether it is a developed, developing, or underdeveloped country, technology is able to penetrate swiftly. The world has no boundaries in terms of technology. Currently, there is a new growing logarithmic technology concerning the combination of the real and virtual world resulting in the world-changing. It is called the Metaverse. It connects people who live far away from each other and be able to gather them in a virtual world where they can virtually conduct activities in the same place. Pertaining to this concept, it has been utilized a similar technology, i.e., virtual classroom a long time ago in an educational context. It uses an online environment on the Internet which allows teachers and students to join together in performing learning and teaching activities and communication. In this article, we will discuss the history of virtual reality technology and virtual learning in different eras from the past till now. This paper will contribute a huge benefit to educators by guiding them in applying the virtual reality of the Metaverse to education in order to create and enhance students' learning.