메타버스의 교육 사례분석 연구

Abstract

This study seeks the educational significance of Metaverse and analyzes various metaverse use cases to discuss how it can be used in the educational field. Metaverse is a combination of Meta and Universe, meaning "the world of the early moon." The functions of 'virtual world', 'avatar', and 'interaction', which are the main functions of metaverse, are meaningful factors in educational use, and based on this, educational significance can be presented as follows. First, metaverse can overcome the physical limitations of the educational environment with an immersive virtual reality experience. Second, metaverse enables active and creative learning by using avatars. Metaverse can creatively organize the self that they want. Third, metaverse can be used as a venue for interaction. In this study, educational content using metaverse was analyzed focusing on experience-based education cases, convergence education use cases, foreign language education use cases, and career education use cases. Based on the case of domestic and foreign educational content using metaverse, the following measures and suggestions that can be used in the current curriculum were presented. First, metaverse can be used as a learning environment to conceive realistic problems that learners will face. Second, it is possible by using a learning platform that can support individual learners. In particular, it can be actively used for after-school education that focuses on individual characteristics of learners. Third, metaverse can be used as a learning platform that can combine various disciplines. Fourth, metaverse is a place of communication and can involve all learners without underprivileged students. Fifth, metaverse can be used as an evaluation tool to understand and diagnose individual learners. Sixth, metaverse can be used as an alternative to solving high-cost or high-risk educational problems. Despite the possibility of such utilization, metaverse has the following limitations at this point. First, for educational use, it is necessary to train instructors in terms of technical competence and to develop educational content in virtual reality space. In addition, excessive Internet exposure can cause confusion of learners and ethical and legal problems of anonymity. Therefore, ethical education for learners should be preceded, and rather than introducing metaverse to the entire process of learning, it should take a form of hybrid education that combines selective online and offline.