Schooling in Metaverse! Japan’s Virtual Advancements Should Be a Lesson for Meta

Schooling in Metaverse has lots of potential and Japan is the first country to take advantage of it

Metaverse is making a name in every industry and education is no exception. To motivate students, particularly those who live far away from school, the Japanese city of Toda, Saitama, implemented a metaverse schooling service, as reported by Cointelegraph. The city of Toda chose schooling in the metaverse that allows kids to tour the campus and study in virtual classrooms. However, pupils must obtain permission from their respective school principals to attend schooling in the metaverse, according to local media NHK.

According to government data, 244,940 Japanese elementary and junior high school students were absent for at least 30 days in the fiscal year 2021. According to NHK, a fifth-grade student prefers to speak online rather than attend school in person. Despite the fact that the youngster has not physically attended school in over two years, they expressed a desire in meeting up with pals to play.

While efforts to raise school attendance continue to be difficult, Japanese officials are betting on metaverse education to help kids engage with those around them. Toda's education centre director, Sugimori Masayuki, desires to see metaverse students grow up and eventually live freely in society.

Soichiro Takashima, the mayor of Fukuoka, confirmed the city's ambitions to lead the Web3 in Japan effort, saying, "We have to achieve in the framework of Web3 in Japan what huge enterprises did for the world when Japan was powerful."

Sota Watanabe, founder of Astar Network, stated his ambition to "operate closely with Fukuoka City to recruit additional developers and entrepreneurs."

One of the many use cases of the Metaverse could be its role in the future of education.  Around 12% retail market uses metaverse with a US $5.604 Billion annual revenue in 2021. It could transform how lessons are taught and how kids learn. The features of the Metaverse seem like a perfect fit for the education sector in this online era.

Experts believe that the Metaverse can be the best principle for learning. Schooling in Metaverse can help students improve their learning journeys by leaps and bounds by providing immersive and interactive experiences. In the Metaverse, a combination of collaboration and communication will play a crucial role in determining what content shall have to be offered in the virtual world to best facilitate learning.

The Metaverse also has a lot of educational potential. It can create a comfortable digital environment for classes, research, experiments, and projects. All of these activities can happen in real-time, allowing students and instructors to interact in the same virtual space. Students can use virtual reality to go on field trips, such as visiting museums.

Moreover, learning games and other metaverse experiences will have to be more diverse and be culturally inclusive for all. The Metaverse's virtual, collaborative, and task-oriented character will allow students to learn without even realizing it. When learning is enjoyable, it is most effective.

The metaverse has the potential to make the whole world a classroom, with data bites embedded all over the real world.  Thus, the physical campus gets a decent supplement or even replacement in the form of its digital twin.

The metaverse can also make it easier to deliver knowledge to a larger audience by offering lectures given by animated teachers. As a result, educators will have much more time to support each student and offer them personalized guidance while technology does routine tasks for them.

But, metaverse needs to have solid security measures because student data security is a long-time issue that surrounds the digitalization of education. As it is a unified virtual space that extends over various platforms globally, it needs a robust regulatory mechanism to make the space safe for all its users, and to keep itself updated, educational institutions need more investments in hardware and software.