Affiliation:
1. WH Higher Education Policy Commission, USA
2. Mosaic Company, USA
Abstract
Will digital instruction be the wave of teaching and learning in institutions of higher education? Will this new way of delivery continue to evolve into more collaborative and interactive assessments vs. traditional testing? Are we willing to be disrupted and challenged in academia? We (educators) know that education, especially institutions of higher learning, has been the great equalizer for many decades and continues to be an evolving landscape of creativity and visionary concepts, through virtual and augmented realities; thus, the metaverse emerges. Soon it will be as omnipresent as TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook (now Meta). As technology advances to bring us new immersive and imaginary worlds, how we educate children and prepare teachers must also advance to meet these new opportunities. To leverage the potential of the metaverse as a 3D, global, interconnected, immersive, and real-time online space, we need new ways to connect the physical world with augmented and virtual reality (VR) experiences.
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