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Metaverse as a Learning Environment: Some Considerations

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  • Maria José Sá

    (CIPES—Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, 4450-227 Matosinhos, Portugal)

  • Sandro Serpa

    (Centre of Social Sciences—CICS.UAc/CICS.NOVA.UAc, Interdisciplinary Centre for Childhood and Adolescence—NICA—UAc, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of the Azores, 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, Portugal)

Abstract

The metaverse is unavoidable in an increasingly digitalized society and will potentially have a profound influence on what is understood as teaching and learning in its formal and informal dimensions, both in initial and continuing education. This research, carried out through document analysis, aims to reflect on several challenges and opportunities that the metaverse poses to education as a source of opportunities for a more relevant and effective teaching process, which necessarily involves the development of both the implementation and monitoring of research studies in the follow-up of education in the metaverse environment.

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  • Maria José Sá & Sandro Serpa, 2023. "Metaverse as a Learning Environment: Some Considerations," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-16, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:3:p:2186-:d:1045683
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